Almantas Samalavicius

Dr. Almantas Samalavicius is an architectural historian, aesthetician and urban researcher as well as literary scholar. He is professor at the School of Architecture, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University where he teaches architectural criticism, aesthetics of architecture, city culture and urban studies in MA programs and supervises doctoral dissertations. Simultaneously he is professor at the Department of English at Vilnius University. He is an author of some 12 scholarly books as well as editor of 11 collections of essays, academic articles and literary anthologies published in Lithuania, UK and USA.

He is a prolific author having published scholarly monographs and collections of essays on topics ranging from baroque architecture, history of architectural ideas, urban theories of the modern period to cultural and architectural criticism as well as higher education.

In addition he is an editor-in-chief of the Journal of Architecture and Urbanism (Taylor and Francis/Routledge) and Chicago-based Lituanus: the Lithuanian Quarterly.

He has previously served as president of Lithuanian PEN and continues to sit on its board.

His books, essays and articles have been translated into some 14 languages and were awarded 8 prizes in his home country.