above: Porsche Platz, design for a public square with Jenny Holzer and Richard Gluckman, Stuttgart, 2003 

NAO

Normal Architecture Office (NAO) is a design practice for conceptual architecture, curating and urbanism.

NAO's founder and chief designer is Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, with Katherine Carl and E. Thaddeus Pawlowski as advisers.

Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss is an architect and designer educated at Harvard University studying with Rem Koolhaas, Jacques Herzog and Richard Gluckman with design experiences from Herzog & de Meuron Architects in Basel, Gluckman Mayner Architects in New York and from collaborations with artists Jenny Holzer, Robert Wilson and Marjetica Potrc. Weiss is an Assistant Professor at Tyler School of Art_Architecture, Temple University since 2008 and was Visiting Faculty at Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Parson School of Design and Pratt Institute since 2000.

Katherine Carl is an art historian and curator educated at Stony Brook University and Oberlin College with curating experiences from The Drawing Center, The DIA Center for the Arts and Artslink in New York and National Endowment for the Arts in Washington D.C.

E. Thaddeus Pawlowski is an urbanist educated at Penn School of Design and currently he is Associate Urban Designer at the New York City Department of City Planning.

Contact: NAO, 2134 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA, Tel. +1.215.268.6677, +1.646.502.8609, nao@thenao.net

[note for applicants: Please send all materials and CVs electronically, single PDF, max 3mb.]  

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