Aleks Catina

Aleks Catina (b. 1976, Năsăud, Romania) grew up in Bucharest and Stuttgart before moving to the UK at the turn of the millennium to study architecture. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2006. Aleks thinks, writes, and facilitates learning about architecture. His published work has been shaped by a sustained interest in irony’s potential for communicative action, particularly in relation to discourses of power in architectural history and theory. Aleks’s current academic writing challenges the Eurocentric canonisation of postmodern irony by examining the ironic in twenty-first-century art that deals with monuments from non-dominant and peripheral perspectives. His aim is to broaden the scope of talking about architecture in many voices. In this spirit, The Pillars of Uncertainty experimentally attempts to venture beyond the limitations of normative academic language and text. Aleks lives in Hackney, London, with his wife, Irina, and two cats, foundling brothers Vasile and Ilie.