Popescu, Carmen

Bio Sketch

Carmen Popescu is an architectural historian working on identity, nationalism, regionalism, and the historiography of modern architecture, including critical regionalism.

Key Works

• "Critical Regionalism: A Not So Critical Theory" (2020, in The Figure of Knowledge).
• Editorial work on architecture, identity, and Eastern Europe.

Key Concepts

Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:

• Critical Architecture
• Everyday Architecture
• Atmosphere

Relevance to Geoffrey's Research

Popescu matters to Geoffrey's postmodernism & critique and everyday & vernacular architecture areas: her genealogy shows critical regionalism to be "less ... a resistance than a disguised manner of keeping a hegemonic discourse alive," raising the question of whether any place-based architecture can resist late capitalism.

Source Support

Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:

• Critical Regionalism: A Not So Critical Theory