Elana
Shapira | Cultural and design historian, project leader of the Austrian Science Fund research project “Visionary Vienna:
Design and Society 1918–1934” (2017-2022) at the Institute of Design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
She organized several International Symposiums on Viennese modernism and émigré cultures. Shapira
is the the author of Style and Seduction: Jewish Patrons and Modern Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siècle Vienna(Brandeis
University Press, 2016); editor of Design Dialogue: Jews, Culture and Viennese Modernism (Böhlau, 2018) and Designing Transformation:jews
and Cultural Identity in Central European Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2021), and coeditor of Émigré Cultures in Design and Architecture
(Bloosmbury, 2017) and Freud and the Émigré (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Her forthcoming co-edited anthology is “Gestalteirnnen:
Women, Design and Society” (De Gruyter, 2023).
