Rachel Győrffy

Rachel Győrffy studied architecture at the TU Munich in Germany and at the Arts University Bournemouth in the United Kingdom. Following her ten years of professional experience in Germany and Hungary, she started her PhD at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest in 2019. Her research focuses on architectural theory and the study of urban planning processes in the context of the current paradigms of reconstructivism and the smart city. She investigates possible causes of the negative perception of postwar modernism and the effects (or lack) of adaptive reuse on urban space, incorporating concepts from sociology (Martina Löw) as well as aspects of aesthetic capitalism (Gernot Böhme) and the tourism industry into her research. Recently, she participated in a competition of ideas in which she proposed new uses for a post-war building in Budapest that was threatened with demolition and its reintegration into the urban fabric. She published an article on this in the Austrian student architecture journal LAMA (Spring 2021). Since October 2021, she has been working as a Research and Teaching Assistant at the Institute of Architectural Theory, History of Art and Cultural Studies at TU Graz.