Maroš Krivý
Maroš Krivý is an urbanist and historian with interests in architecture, urbanism and the environment in the postwar and post-Cold War periods. His research examines the interplay between design, power and knowledge in areas ranging from mass housing to urban nature and cybernetic urbanism.
One stream of Krivý’s work examines the architecture of state-socialist mass housing as a site of imagination, stigmatization and heritage work. Spanning architectural history and cultural geography, this scholarship focuses on former Czechoslovakia and other Eastern European countries to trace the expectations, institutions and spaces of socialist urbanism.
Another research strand involves imaginaries of nature and culture in urbanism. His dissertation and postdoctoral research examined the interplay between post-industrial aesthetics, anti-planning discourses and neoliberal urbanism in turn-of-the-century Finland and Estonia.
Krivý’s most recent focus is a history of the idea of indeterminacy in contemporary urban professions. A particular interest lies in the ideological work of complexity theory in relation to environmental design, smart cities and other expert-based approaches to urban change.
Krivý’s current book project, with the working title Urbanism at the End of History, examines how urban experts responded to global capitalism with naturalistic explanations, and forgot about injustice along the way. Research on this project is supported through Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship.
Maroš Krivý is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (2022–2024) and Professor of Urban Studies at the Estonian Academy of Arts. He was Research Associate at the University of Cambridge (2016–2018; ERC Advanced Grant “Rethinking Urban Nature”). (2024)
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