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Aleksandr Bierig is a scholar focusing on the history of architecture, infrastructure, and urbanization, particularly the interplay between the built environment, natural environment, and political economy in 18th- and 19th-century Britain and its empire. His current research centers on coal’s spatial and economic impacts, culminating in a forthcoming book titled The Ashes of the City: Architecture, Environment, and the Spatial Economy of Coal in Britain (1700–1849). He explores themes such as energy surplus, urban pollution, and the materialization of fossil fuel’s social and economic significance through infrastructure and institutions like the 1849 London Coal Exchange.
Education:
- B.A., Yale University
- M.Arch., Princeton University
- Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Interests:
Bierig investigates visual scaling techniques in 18th-century America, early railway architecture’s unstable geographies, transformations of the cottage ideal in Anglo-settler contexts, and histories of forced ventilation. His work bridges environmental, architectural, and economic historiographies to analyze how energy systems shape spatial and social relations.
Awards & Grants:
- Canadian Centre for Architecture Fellowship
- Paul Mellon Centre Fellowship
- Society of Architectural Historians Fellowship
- Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative Support
He publishes in Architectural Theory Review, Journal18, and Perspecta, and serves as an editor-at-large for The Avery Review.
