2025-2026 Maya Brin Residency Vladimir Paperny

Vladimir Paperny is the 2025 Maya Brin Resident at the University of Maryland.

Vladimir Paperny is the 2025 Maya Brin Resident at the University of Maryland. He is an author, designer, architectural historian and faculty member of the University of California, Los Angeles.

He received his master’s in design from Stroganov Art School in Moscow and his Ph.D. in cultural studies from the Russian State University for the Humanities. His doctoral thesis, Culture Two: Architecture in the Age of Stalin, was published in Russian by Ardis (Ann Arbor, 1985) and later by NLO (Moscow, 1996), in English (Cambridge University Press, 2003), in Czech (Arbor Vitae) and in Italian (Artemide).

Since moving to the United States in 1981, Paperny has been a visiting professor at USC, UCLA, the Woodrow Wilson Center and Bristol University in the United Kingdom. He co-edited Architecture of Great Expositions 1937–1958: Messages of Peace and Images of War (Ashgate, 2015). His articles, essays and columns, in both English and Russian, have appeared in Architectural Digest, Project Russia, Speech, Vogue, Snob and other publications.

His collections of essays (in Russian) include Mos Angeles, Mos Angeles-2 (NLO) and Fuck Context? (Tatlin). He recently published Cinema, Culture, and the Zeitgeist (Kino, kul’tura, i dukh vremeni, NLO, 2023) and has a new book of memoirs coming out later this year: How I was a Designer (Kak ia byl dizainerom, NLO, 2025).

Image credit:
Joseph McKenley, Zain Shah
ARCH4/678C Architecture & Cinema: Place + Film, Prof. Peter Noonan

Events

Please join us for the following special events featuring Vladimir Paperny:

• Conference on Contested Spaces October 23-24

• How I was a Designer: Vladimir Paperny in Conversation with Sasha Razor October 27
   

For more information, please contact Zhanna Vernola, Coordinator of the Maya Brin Residency Program: vernola@umd.edu