Dr Iulia Statica

Iulia Statica is an architect, and an architectural historian and theorist. Between 2019-21 she was the Marie Curie Research Fellow at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London where she developed a research project titled Gender, Infrastructure and the Production of Domesticity in the Postsocialist City. She employs documentary film as an integral aspect of both research and practice; her documentary — My Socialist Home — was premiered in her exhibition Archiving the Home: Gender and Domesticity in Postsocialist Bucharest in London in 2021. Between 2018 and 2019 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Latin American Studies Program, at Cornell University and a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto between 2013-14. She was awarded her PhD from the Department of Architecture at the University of Rome La Sapienza, and is the author of Urban Phantasmagorias: Domesticity, Production and the Politics of Modernity in Communist Bucharest (Routledge, forthcoming 2022).