Radu Remus Macovei

Radu Remus Macovei (he/his) is a Registered Architect in New York, urban planner and educator, currently a Doctoral Fellow and Scientific Researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH - Zürich. His ongoing doctorate reinterprets the project of modernity through tradition. His research focuses on the physical relocation of buildings from countryside to city-side in the early 20th c. in East-Central Europe, reconstructing the tensions between national agendas and lived experiences. This topic builds on design research he developed through Harvard University’s Appleton Fellowship (2020) and Robert A.M. Stern’s Traveling Fellowship (2019) which enabled him to pursue fieldwork in East-Central Europe.

Before starting his doctoral research, Radu Remus was the Architectural Activism Fellow at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee where he taught core and advanced design studios and a history & theory seminar which investigated how material culture and social phenomena enable architectures in a state of flux. Prior to his academic appointments, Radu Remus worked for various international architecture practices, most notably at Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York City, USA), Herzog & de Meuron (Basel, Switzerland) and Dogma (Brussels, Belgium). He has also recently consulted the United Nations Human Settlements Organization (Nairobi, Kenya) on inclusive and sustainable urban regeneration.

Radu Remus graduated with a Master in Architecture with Distinction and a Master in Urban Planning with Distinction from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (Cambridge, USA) and pursued undergraduate studies at the Architectural Association (RIBA Part 1, London, UK).