Hannes Meyer: Soviet Architect. Life and Work in the USSR, 1930-1936

Efrussi, Tatiana: - Dr. Tatiana Efrussi is an architecture and art historian as well as an artist. She was born in Moscow and is currently based in Paris. Since 2010, she has been researching the influence of political ideas on architectural practice and urban realities in both Soviet and German contexts in the 20th century. In 2011, she graduated from the Department of Art History of the Moscow State Lomonosov University with a paper on connections between Bauhaus and the USSR. As a researcher at the Museum of the Moscow Architectural Institute (MARKhI), she curated the exhibition 'Bauhaus in Moscow' in 2012. Her doctoral research dedicated to Hannes Meyer's life in the USSR during the early Stalinist period was supported by the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Scholarship Fund. She defended her in 2020 at the Department of Architectural Theory and Design, University of Kassel in Germany. In parallel, Efrussi continued her art practice and studies and, in 2021, graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris school.From 2018 to 2019, Efrussi collaborated with the 'Bauhaus Imaginista' project, initiated by Marion von Osten and Grant Watson. In 2019-2020, she worked as a research consultant for the traveling exhibition 'The City of Tomorrow', curated by Ruben Arevshatyan and Georg Schölhammer. Efrussi has published essays on topics including Hannes Meyer, the Bauhaus, Soviet architecture, and contemporary Russian urbanism in scholarly collections and magazines in Russia, Germany, and Switzerland.