Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss

M.Arch. II, Harvard University
Dipl.Ing.Arch., University of Belgrade

Bio
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss explores architecture in relation to contemporary geo-politics and specifically the role of architecture in emerging democracy. Weiss is an architect and founder of Normal Architecture Office as well as founding member of School of Missing Studies network. His books: Almost Architecture and Lost Highway Expedition Photobook explore architecture vis-à-vis emerging democratic processes taking Europe’s South East as a source model of spatial knowledge. Weiss’ design experience includes collaborating with Richard Gluckman, Herzog & de Meuron Architects as well as artists Jenny Holzer, Robert Wilson and Marjetica Potrc. His design activism includes saving socialist spaces of recreation from rampant neo-liberalism with an ongoing project to preserve and adapt an existing handball stadium in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia into a youth centre. Selected by Herzog & de Meuron Architects, Weiss and NAO designed one of the houses to be built in the new city of Ordos, in Inner Mongolia, Republic of China. He is one of the authors from Harvard Guide to Shopping, edited by Koolhaas et.al. published by Taschen Gmbh. Currently Weiss is preparing a book on Architecture of Balkanization supported by Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College in London.

Research

Prizes, Awards, and Grants

• Nominated for Iakov Chernikhov International Prize for Young Architects, Moscow, Russia, 2008

• AIA Merit Awards, for Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, with Gluckman Mayner Architects, 2007

• Akademie Schloss Solitute Fellowhsip in Architecture, Stuttgart, Germany, 2004-05

• 1st Prize Winner, 2002, Competition for the Square in front of the German Press and Information Office in Berlin, limited competition, with Jenny Holzer and Richard Gluckman

• Prize Winner, 1998, 2G Competition for the Head Office of Mies van der Rohe Foundation, Barcelona

Publications

• Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss / NAO, featured in 10x10x3 – Phaidon Emerging Architecture Atlas, edited by Shumon Basar, Phaidon, New York – London, 2009

• Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, “Three Days After Tomorrow”, in Beyond the Post-Contemporary, edited by Pedro Gadanho, SUN publishers Rotterdam, 2009

• Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, “Belgrade: Where Subversion is Normal,” in Perspecta, Issue: Re_Urbanism, Yale University, The MIT Press, 2007

• Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, “School of Missing Studies”, in Did Someone Say Participate: Atlas of Spatial Practice, edited by Shumon Basar & Markus Miessen, MIT Press/Revolver, 2006

• Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, “Escalator” and “Air-conditioning”, in Harvard Guide to Shopping, edited by Rem Koolhaas et.al. Taschen, 2002

Competitions

• Ordos Villa no.62, Commissioned by Jiang Water Engineering Co., Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, 2008

• Nursery town, Invited competition for a 6000 people settlement at an existing arboretum, Belgrade, Serbia, 2009

• Handball Stadium, adaptation and preservation of an existing stadium into a recreation and new media centre, Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia, 2004-09

• Housing for Elderly Socialists, Competition project and study, Valjevo, Serbia, 2003

• Blur, Main offices of the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, Barcelona, 2G Competition, 1998, Prize Winner

Exhibitions

• Co-curator, with Osvaldo Romberg of 1:5:25 / Extra Space: Architecture Beyond Immediate Rights, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, 2009

• Featured in exhibition “Balkanology”, Swiss Architecture Museum: S_AM, curated by Kai Vökler, Basel, Switzerland

• Collaboration with Yona Friedman, Installation “About Cities”, at the Drawing Center, curated by Katherine Carl, New York, 2006

• Featured in exhibition “Good Life”, Van Alen Institute, installed at Pier 40, curated by Zoe Ryan, New York, 2006

• Solo exhibition: “Shapes of Balkanization?” at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, 2006

Lectures, Workshops, and Charrettes

• Academy of Slovene Sciences, public talk, “East Coast Europe”, Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 20, 2009

• Architecture Day Stockholm, public lecture, Stockholm, Sweden, November 15, 2008

• Harvard Graduate School of Design, presentation & discussion with Jeffrey Kipnis, Cambridge, MA, 2008

• Architectural League New York, 13:100 for Ordos, public talk & discussion, New York, 2008

• SITAC, public lecture, Mexico City, Mexico, January 2008

Professional Practice

• Normal Architecture Office, founder and partner, New York-Philadelphia, since 2003

• Herzog & de Meuron Architects, architect and cultural researcher, Basel, Switzerland, 2006-07

• Richard Gluckman Architects & Gluckman Mayner Architects, project architect & designer, New York, 1997-2003

• Normal Group for Architecture, art&architecture studio, New York, 1998-2003