We are pleased to announce that assistant professor of the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture Snežana Vesnić will be a member of the jury for the 2023 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award for the Young Talent category. Professor Vesnić has been the Coordinator for National Nominations for the Mies van der Rohe Award in the Union of Architects of Serbia.

Keeping up with technologies to imagine and build together sustainable, inclusive, and beautiful cities

CREATIVE DANUBE Erasmus+ project, in which the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture was one of participants, ended with 2022. The topic of the project was the improvement of teaching and learning skills regarding the development possibilities of small and medium-sized cities and towns in the Danube Region at seven Danubian higher-education institutions that participated in this Erasmus+ consortium.

On February 2, 2023, the Ambassador of Japan to Serbia, His Excellency Mr. Takahiko Katsumata and Ms. Yuki Ikoma, First Secretary, Department of Culture and Media, attended the presentation of the Master Studio Design Project M03A/07A The Culture of Habitation: Ambassadors’ Residence, led by: mentor, Dr. Dragana Vasiljević Tomić, Associate Professor and associate, Dr. Ivan Filipović, Graduate Teaching Assistant.

The final conference of DANUrB+ Project was organised on December 11-13, 2022, in Budapest, Hungary. During the second conference day, the project partners presented the most significant results of the project to international and regional guests, including the important guests from INTERREG Secretariat, and organised several roundtables to highlight the most important topics for urban heritage along the Danube.

The 3rd and last transnational project meeting of the Erasmus+ CREATIVE DANUBE Project was held in Bucharest, Romania, on November 25-26, 2022. The meeting was organised by the project leader – the Faculty of Urban Planning of “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism. All seven higher-education institutions in the project consortium participated in the project meeting.

As the part of final activities in the DANUrB+ Project, each project partner conducted a pilot action with the Danube city with which it cooperates. The main pilot action within DANUrB+ Project realised in Serbia is a new mural for “Staparska Ruža / Stapar Rose” Women association from Stapar Village, a super-stakeholder organisation in the project from Sombor Region. The authors of this mural – artists Dejan Ivanović (Wuper) and Nikola Mihajlović (Kori) – created the mural on...

The Faculty of Architecture – University of Belgrade, in collaboration with the Embassy of Japan in the Republic of Serbia, hosted the guest lecture “The Culture of Habitation: Ambassadors’ Residence”, held by His Excellence Mr. Takahiko Katsumata, the Ambassador of Japan to Serbia at the Faculty of Architecture (Hall 200) on Monday, November 28, 2022 at 6 PM.

We are happy to announce the 13th CA²RE conference under the topic EXCHANGING. The conference takes place at the Aarhus School of Architecture in association with ARENA, EAAE and ELIA.

On November 22nd and 23rd the 2nd Transnational Meeting of the Erasmus + Cli-CC.HE Project will be held at the School of Architecture and Design UNICAM, Sant’Angelo Magno Campus, CO13 Ascoli Piceno.

The Faculty of Architecture – University of Belgrade, in collaboration with the Embassy of Japan in the Republic of Serbia, has the distinct honor of extending an invitation to the guest lecture “The Culture of Habitation: Ambassadors’ Residence” to be held by His Excellence Mr. Takahiko KATSUMATA, the Ambassador of Japan to Serbia at the Faculty of Architecture (Hall 200) on November 28, 2022 (Monday) at 6 PM.

The last regional stakeholder conference in the Middle Danube Region in the DANUrB+ Project was held in Golubac on November 4-5, 2022. The conference was organised by teams from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade and Golubac Municipality. The main part of the conference were sessions where stakeholders and partners from West Romania, Croatia and Serbia presented their organisations, development visions and potentials to cooperate at regional level. There were also special presentations of the DANUrB+ Atlas, technical project and school programmes in Golubac. Aside of the sessions, all participants had a cultural tour in the Serbian part of the Iron Gates Gorge, with cultural visits to Golubac Fortress and “Lepenski Vir” Archaeological Park.

The International Architecture and Engineering Forum – SHARE celebrates its fourth edition in Belgrade and focuses on the design and performance of facades and their impact on public spaces. SHARE Belgrade 2022 Forum will take place on 23rd November at the Metropol Palace Hotel.

We are delighted to share that the deadline for SAJ vol 15, issue 1 (2022) has been extended to the 30th of November and that the Call for papers is available on the journal website. Inspired by the Japanese identity(-ies) and its spatial manifestations, guest editor, Teaching Assistant PhD Ivan Filipović, from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Belgrade, invites researchers to contribute with papers exploring the relationship between architectural design and the theory of (Japanese) identity(-ies). Please submit your papers, as per Author Gudielines, until the 30th of November 2022. For more details, please do not hesitate to reach out to the Editorial Office at saj@arh.bg.ac.rs.

ECOBUILT Workshop will be held in online format (webinar-based event) on October 26 and 27, 2022. The workshop is a training activity within ERASMUS + program (ERASMUS-EDU-2021-EMJM-DESIGN — Erasmus Mundus Design Measures), the 15-month international project ECOBUILT – Eco-friendly Built Environment (n. 2101050081). This project is a result of mutual efforts of partner institutions: Riga Technical University, Latvia (beneficiary – https://www.rtu.lv/en), University of Genoa, Italy (co-beneficiary – https://unige.it/en/), and University of Belgrade, Serbia (co-beneficiary and hosting institution of the workshop – www.bg.ac.rs/en/).

University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture in the week from 27. - 30. September begins the new 2022/2023 school year with the manifestation of the WEEK WITH ARCHITECTURE 2022. The event contains a series of activities aimed at informing the professional and general public about the educational process and research in the field of architecture conducted by the Faculty.

The students of the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade participated in the international student workshop of the DANUrB+ INTERREG Project in Sombor, Serbia, and Baja, Hungary, on August 25-26, 2022. The topic of the workshop was related to the mapping of hidden values in both cities in order to increase the attractiveness and new branding of these two border cities. Therefore, the workshop aimed to form a photo collection of hidden and less known places, which are not tourist, but have а potential for further development of a city. Students undertake an analysis where they were in the role of local and external city users, by which they defined a problem in the use of urban space and, then, discovered a potential as its solution. This photo collection is going to be posted at an Instagram account.

The 2nd International conference of the DANUrB+ Project was organised in Sombor, Serbia, and Baja, Hungary, on August 26-27, 2022. The topic of the conference was regional branding and the network building of cultural economy and tourism. Therefore, the conference aimed to find common tracks, living and forgotten/or hidden remnants of cultural heritage in Danubian countries and beyond, which can be re-discovered and activated for regional identity and brand building. Regional branding is an umbrella term. This is a connection between the individual and collective reputation, where a special respect is given to quality, value adding and the strengthening of regional identity. Hence, the branding becomes an important tool for local/regional development and community building.

DANURB+ DANube Urban Brand + Building Regional and Local Resilience through the Valorization of Danube’s Cultural Heritage (2020-2022)...