East Polynesia: Architectural and Cultural Guide - Natascha Meuser

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Meuser, Philipp: - Philipp Meuser (born 1969) is an architect and publisher. He studied architecture in Berlin and Zurich with a focus on architectural history and theory, and completed his PhD at the Technical University of Berlin with a dissertation on the typology of Soviet mass housing. His work operates at the intersection of practice and theory, combining design with cultural and historical analysis. Motivated by questions of resilience and climate change, Meuser has increasingly focused on non-European building cultures. His research spans a wide range of geographies - from the vernacular architecture of sub-Saharan Africa and the authoritarian urbanism of Eurasia to the spatial traditions of Polynesia. He has held an honorary professorship at O. M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv, Ukraine, since 2018, and served as visiting professor for public humanities and cultural heritage at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, in 2022.