Vrej Haroutounian

Vrej Haroutounian

Vrej Haroutounian is a landscape architect, planner, lecturer and researcher based in Los Angeles. He holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. His PhD research examined post-Soviet landscape transformation.
His work focuses on spatial justice, governance, and the relationship between people, place, and everyday life. He has studied and written about Armenia for over 20 years.
He currently publishes Landscape Strategy on Substack, which translates landscape thinking into usable language for understanding places, systems, and change.

Evroremont/Евроремонт

Evroremont/Евроремонт

Evroremont became a material expression of the post-Soviet transition, reshaping inherited Soviet landscapes through renovation, adaptation and improvisation. Vrej Haroutounian traces its evolution from an imagined European future into a reality of its own, and asks what comes next when imitation gives way to recognition.