Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss

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current affiliation: _ University of Pennsylvania, Department of Architecture, lecturer; _ Normal Architecture Office – NAO, founder and partner; _ Goldsmiths Centre for Research Architecture, London, PhD Candidate.

education: 1995-1997 _ M.Arch. II. Harvard Design School [Professors/Mentors: Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron, Adrian Geuze, Richard Gluckman and Rem Koolhaas (thesis)] _1987-1995 Dipl.Ing.Arh. Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade [Atelier: Prof. Milan Lojanica] _1984-86 Matura in Descriptive Geometry & Mathematics, Natural Mathematics Gymnasium ‘J.J.Zmaj,’ Novi Sad

prizes/awards: 2004_ Honorary Mention, Open competition for the Belgrade City Gallery; 2002: _ 1st Prize Winner at the Competition for the Square in front of the German Press and Information Office in Berlin, limited competition, with Jenny Holzer and Richard Gluckman; _Honorary Mention, Pamphlet Architecture Competition, Princeton Architectural Press, New York; _ Award for Architecture, Forma, Biennial exhibition of Applied Arts, Novi Sad; 2001: Recommendations Archive, Borromini Award for Young Architects, Rome; 1999 _ Honorary Mention at the National Competition for the Hotel Complex in Belgrade; 1998: _2nd Prize Winner at the 2G Competition for the Head Office of Mies van der Rohe Foundation, Barcelona; 1996:  _Citation, Progressive Architecture Awards, with Richard Gluckman Architects; 1994 BiAB Gold Medal, Biennial of Architecture in Brasil, Recife; _ 1993: _ CAyC Gold Medal, Centro del Arte y Comunicacion Buenos Aires; _ 1993: 1st Prize Winner at the open competition for a National Theatre in Subotica, Vojvodina, Serbia; _ 1991: "BORBA" Award Winner for Architectural Project, Sarajevo-Belgrade; _1991: Award Winner for Architecture, at the Annual October Art Salon, Novi Sad.

exhibitions/lectures: -2005_ Performers Guest House, Akademie Solitude, Stuttgart, lecture; _ Wurtenbergische Kunstverein, “On Difference,” Stutttgart, lecture; 2004_ Whitney Museum, New York, I.P.O. series, together with Katherine Carl, lecture; _ Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, lecture; _ 2003 _ Berlin Transformers, Urban Drift Gallery: “UFO Belgrade” _ Columbia University, Center for Archeology: Conference: Excavating Memories: The Archeology of remembering and forgetting _ II Tirana Biennial, exhibition: “Clear Positions,” curated by Stephanie Benzaquen, _ Cornell University, Cornell Architecture Department, Ithaca, NY, lecture, upcoming April’03 _ The Stroom, The Hague’s Centre for Visual Arts, debates on “The city, the gap and the regulations,” upcoming March’03 _ 2002 _ Gallery of Science and Technique, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, and various locations” “Interactive Normalization,” November 15-30 _ Urban Drift Conference Berlin, Turbo Space, lecture, October 9-12 _ Cooper Union – New York, Building of Situations, organized by Nomads&Residents, New York, April 11 _ Max Protetch Gallery. New York, A New World Trade Center exhibition of proposals, with Richard Gluckman and GMA _ National Design Museum, Washington, Design Proposals for A New World Trade Center, with Richard Gluckman and GMA _ University of Texas in Austin, Normalcy, lecture, February 22 _ 2001 _ TN Probe - Tokyo, "New Urban Conditions" lecture series, Loss of Memory? _ 2001 Mutations, Arc en Reve Bordeaux, with Harvard Project on the City, _2000 _ ETH-Zürich, Switzerland, Modernist Exile, Lina Bo Bardi and Brazil, "Women in history of architecture," Zurich _ 2000 _ ANE - Art Network Enterprises, New York _ 2000 _ Yustat Conference Belgrade “Balkan Cities as Stages for the End of the Millennium,” NATO as Architectural Critic, lecture _ 1997 _ Cities on the Move, Secession Vienna, curated by Hans-Ulrich Olbrist _ 1996 _ Dokumenta of Architecture Denmark, 5 East European architects on cartography, Copenhagen _1995 _ Museum of Architecture,  Serbian Academy of Science and Art, lecture, Belgrade _ 1994 _ Royal Institute of British Architects, 20 World Young Architects, Gallery II, exhibition, London

architecture and design projects: 2007_ Slought Administration Office, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia; 2007_ About Cities: Yona Friedman, Spatial Collage at the Drawing Center, Collaboration, New York; 2006_ House for an Expatriate, California; 2006_ Hilltopia, Philadelphia; 2006_ House for an Expatriate, California; 2005_ Asylum for Dogs and Cats, Brcko District, Bosnia and Herzegovina, current proposal; 2005_ Vajdic Apartment, Interior design, Novi Sad, under construction; 2004 _ Stadion Kulture, Center for Recreation and New Media, Novi Sad, current commission; 2004_ Participant Inc., Rivington Street, Art gallery in New York, in construction; 2004_ Science School, Invited competition for a science campus in Southern Serbia; 2003 _ Belgrade City Gallery, Open competition, Honorary Mention; 2003_ Rubber Bar, Swiss Institute New York, bar furniture and appliances for the institute, completed; 2002 _ Time Wall, Stage set and architectural design for Gina Gibney Dance company for “Time Remaining,” DanSpace / St.Marks Church New York, premiered; 2001_ Rice-field Origami, International Competition for the Northern Style Housing, Aomori, Japan; 2001_ Chair for Several Truths, Stage set and architectural design for Gina Gibney Dance Co. for “Several Truths” premiered at The Duke Theatre, 42nd Street, New York; 2000 _ Collective, Limited competition for a secondary school in Triesen, Liechtenstein, 2nd stage; 1999 _ 30 Years of MASP by Lina Bo Bardi, 400 Avery Hall, Columbia University; 1999_ tkts Competition, New York, selected for publication _ Thread Waxing Space, renovation of a non-profit art gallery and offices, New York; 1998_ Hotel Normal, Competition for a building complex in Belgrade, Honorable Mention 1998_ Blur, 2G Competition for the Head Office of the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, 2nd Prize, Barcelona; 1994 _ Blueprints for the Jungle, IFYA International Competition, 1st Prize, Recife, Brazil; 1993_ Infra[wave]structure, IFYA International Competition, 3rd Prize, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 1993 _ National Theatre in Subotica, Open Competition, 1st Prize;

teaching: _2007-2008 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, architectural design and research seminars; 2005_ Pratt Institute, Graduate program in architecture, New York City _2001-2005 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, architectural design and research studios _2000 Columbia University, New York, architectural design studio _1996 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA _2002 Parsons School of Design, New York _1994-1995 FAUB - Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade

research: 2005_Positive Aspects of Balkanization, on war and territorial strategy of sustenance, part of School of Missing Studies network _2004- Manhattan Shadow Project, on metropolitan negatives, part of School of Missing Studies network _2003/4 Looking for October, on liberation of cities, part of School of Missing Studies network _2000- Turbo Architecture, research about the changes of an isolated city accelerated by the dominant forces of politics, media and popular culture, case study Belgrade, Serbia. _1996-99 Project on the City - Shopping, with Rem Koolhaas, Harvard University, [book published by Taschen] _1997-1999 Lina Bo Bardi & Brasil [exhibition and symposium held at Columbia University 1999]

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