Founded by Radu Remus Macovei (he/his), Stuff Studio gathers a portfolio of architectural and urban planning & design work across academic, experimental, research and uncategorizable areas.
Radu Remus Macovei is a Registered Architect in New York, urban planner and educator, currently a Doctoral Fellow and Scientific Researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH - Zürich. His ongoing doctoral research focuses on vernacular architecture, open-air museums and the emergence of nationalism in 19th - 20th c. Eastern Europe. This topic builds on design research he developed through Harvard University’s Appleton Fellowship (2020) and Robert A.M. Stern’s Traveling Fellowship (2019) which enabled him to pursue fieldwork in Eastern Europe.
Before starting his doctoral research, Radu Remus was the Architectural Activism Fellow at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee where he taught design studios and a history and theory seminar which investigated how material culture and social phenomena enable architectures in a state of flux. Prior to his academic appointments, Radu Remus worked for various international architecture practices, most notably at Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York City, USA), Herzog & de Meuron (Basel, Switzerland) and Dogma (Brussels, Belgium). He has also recently consulted the United Nations Human Settlements Organization (Nairobi, Kenya) on inclusive and sustainable urban regeneration.
Radu Remus graduated with a Master in Architecture with Distinction and a Master in Urban Planning with Distinction from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (Cambridge, USA) and pursued undergraduate studies at the Architectural Association (London, UK).