We warmly invite you to an evening of lecture, discussion, and celebration marking the launch of Architecture of Memory (UCL Press, 2025).

Thursday 12 February 2026
6–8 pm
UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
22 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0QB
Room 6.02
No registration required

Part of the Situating Architecture Lecture Series, the event explores architectural disappearance, urban remembrance, and the “present absence” of former Jewish shtetls in Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing on archival research, architecture, and artistic interventions, Natalia Romik reflects on how synagogue ruins, ritual baths, and repurposed buildings can be reimagined today.

Celebratory drinks to follow. Open to all.

About Natalia Romik:
Natalia Romik is an architect, designer, artist, and curator. She was awarded a PhD in 2018 at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, for her thesis Post-Jewish Architecture of Memory within Former Eastern European Shtetls. As a consultant with Nizio Design Studio (Warsaw), she contributed to the core exhibition design of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and co-curated exhibitions including Estranged: March ’68 and Its Aftermath (2018) and (post)JEWISH… Shtetl Opatów Through the Eyes of Mayer Kirshenblatt (2024). Her research into Jewish hideouts during the Second World War culminated in the exhibition Hideouts. The Architecture of Survival, presented in 2022 at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw and at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt. In 2022 she received the Dan David Prize, and in 2025 she joined the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin as a Yehudit and Yehuda Elkana Fellow.

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