Ksenia Litvinenko is a Berlin-based historian of architecture.
Her work explores the intersection of institutional systems and environmental forces in shaping architecture, with a particular focus on the Soviet Union.
She studies how buildings reflect political structures, economic models, and social change.
Her research is both historical and deeply contextual.
Ksenia’s writing has appeared in respected academic journals, including the Journal of Architecture, Architecture Beyond Europe, and e-flux Architecture.
She has also contributed to major edited volumes, including Rethinking Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century (2024), Theaterbauwissen (2025), and The Gift: Spaces of Global Socialism and Their Afterlives (2026).
Her work consistently examines architecture not merely as form but as ideology in the built environment.
She has lectured at institutions including the University of Manchester and Bauhaus University in Weimar.
Her research has been supported by internationally recognized organizations, including the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Open Society Archives, and the German Historical Institute in Moscow.
Ksenia holds a PhD in Architecture.
She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space.
At present, she is writing a history of mobile architecture and fly-in, fly-out urbanism associated with petroleum and natural gas extraction in Western Siberia during the final decades of the Cold War.
Her work connects architecture, politics, and environment in ways that feel both historical and urgently contemporary.
