Ioana Cristina Popovici

Ioana Cristina Popovici trained as an architect at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest, and is currently a doctoral candidate at Plymouth University. Her research project investigates the evolution of architecture in socialist Romania as discursive interference between several fields—politics, architectural profession, economy, and socio-cultural practices. Broader research interests include architecture theory in totalitarian regimes, the urban development of modern Bucharest, industrial architecture, and intersections between architecture, philosophy, cultural theory and social sciences. Having taught at both universities, in Bucharest and Plymouth, she has developed teaching interests focused on the critical examination of architecture praxis—past, present, and future—in articulation with power, social, economic and cultural practices. From liminality, transgressive architecture, disaster-relief design, the architectural critique of neo-capitalism, to urbicide and housing homelessness, she supports her students in becoming critically aware of the complex network of factors impinging on contemporary architecture.