Ongoing research project, tracing the materialisation of the Europeanisation process in aspiring countries, revealing how belonging to the EU is actively constructed and negotiated through space.

Europeanisation is non-linear, fragmentary and difficult to grasp – yet it is being poured into concrete, installed in full-glazed facades, plastered onto walls and buried in underground communications. This is the thesis that drives my research, that started with almost a decade of observations on how the EU-accession changes the built environment in the Republic of Moldova. Starting there I published the article ‘The German Village – Moldova’s Dreamland’ in trans Magazine in March 2026, looking into the residential development in Chisinau that claims to build Europe at home. Since then I have been working on my bigger theoretical framework and foundation on Architecture of Europeanisation as a process beyond borders and looking for funding for pursuing my research independently. The project is more than just about Europeanisation, it is about how architecture is both result and agent of geopolitical entanglements and about finding tools to make this visible and bring it on the table of political discussion. It may make architecture more relevant again, by accident.

I am currently one of the 5 finalists of the Wheelwright Prize 2026 that would allow me to travel, deepen and broaden my research in the next 2-3 years. Keeping fingers crossed and continuing the work.

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