Alexander Bala

Alexander Bala is an architectural historian and theorist and Lecturer at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. His research focuses on the Open Form tradition of the Polish architect Oskar Hansen from the 1950s and its implications on debates of autonomy within a broader history of architecture. Bala was a Fulbright research fellow in Warsaw, Poland during the 2018-19 academic year, a Visegrád research fellow at the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives of the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary during the 2024 Spring semester, and an American Councils Title VIII research fellow in Warsaw during the 2024-25 academic year. His writings have been published in edited volumes by Routledge, as well as in journals and online platforms such as Fabrications, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Architektúra & urbanizmus, H-SHERA, Places, and Drawing Matter. Bala has lectured throughout the United States and Europe. He holds a bachelor of architecture from Virginia Tech, and master and doctoral degrees in architectural history from the University of Texas at Austin.