Filip Galić

Filip Galić is a Ph.D. student in the HAUD program at Cornell University, where he is currently preoccupied with questions surrounding architecture’s political operativity, researching the process of ‘balkanization.’ Grounded in the premise that architecture aesthetically mediates, if not intensifies, material and political conditions of a specific context, he treats balkanization as an architectural concept where political antagonism manifests in spatial fragmentation, and via which the politics underpinning the construction of ambiguous cultural identities can be interrogated; often revealing a past not yet made history. Prior to doctoral studies at Cornell, Galić practiced architecture at BIG, Powerhouse, and Alison Brooks Architects; and received his postgraduate degree in History and Critical Thinking from Architectural Association with distinction.