Almantas Samalavičius
Job Title: Professor and chief research associate
Institutional affiliation: Vilnius Gediminas Technical Universit, Vilnius, Lithuania
Almantas Samalavičius obtained his Ph. D in architectural history and theory from Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania where he currently is a professor at the Department of Architectural Fundamentals, Theory and Art and Chief research associate at the Institute of Architecture. He is an author of many scholarly books and monographs, including Lithuanian Architecture and Urbanism (2019), City and Mind (2013, in Lithuanian), Ideas and Structures: Essays in Architectural History (2011). He has edited more than a dozen collections of essays including Site, Symbol and Cultural Landscape (2021), Rethinking Modernism and the Built Environment (2017). He is an author of more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in architectural and urban history and theory. In addition, he serves as editor in chief of the Journal of Architecture and Urbanism and Chicago based-Lituanus Quarterly. His books, articles and essays have been translated into some 14 languages. He has been visiting professor at Illinois University at Chicago (USA), Kyungpook National University (South Korea), Diponegoro University (Indonesia).
Publications
Samalavičius, A. Lithuanian Architecture and Urbanism. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2019. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-2228-2
Samalavičius, A. Nuo nekropolio iki akropolio: Vilniaus miestovaizdžio metamorfozės. Vilnius: Kultūros barai, 2017. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337160111_Nuo_nekropolio_iki_akropolio_Vilniaus_miestovaizdzio_metamorfozes_From_Necropolis_to_Acropolis_Metamorphoses_of_Vilnius’_Cityscape
Samalavičius, A. (Ed.). Site, Symbol and Cultural Landsape. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2021. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-7588-2
Samalavičius, A. (Ed.). Rethinking Modernism and the Built Environment. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2017. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-4438-5513-6
Samalavičius, A. “Architecture, City and Mathematics: The Lost Connection”, Mathematics Interdiciplinary Research, 4, no.1 (2019):1-10. https://mir.kashanu.ac.ir/article_88764.html