About

Biljana Arandelovic is a theorist of architecture and urbanism, artist, architect and asst. professor of architecture. She graduated in architecture from the University of Niš and received her doctorate from the Graz University of Technology in 2008. Additionally, she conducted post-doctoral research at the Institute for History and Theory of Design at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK Berlin) in 2011/2012.

During 2022/23, Arandelovic carried out research as a visiting scholar at the Institute for Urban and Regional Planning of the Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna, on the aesthetics of contemporary Viennese architecture and urbanism and on the current rehabilitation of cultural heritage buildings. In 2016, Arandelovic was a visiting scholar at Bocconi University in Milan, at the ASK Center for Research on the Management and Economics of Art and Cultural Facilities, where she had to conduct research on the impact of art on contemporary cities.

Arandelovic has an extensive teaching background, having taught Contemporary architecture at the Faculty of Applied Arts at the University of Arts Belgrade (Serbia) and Art and the city in the Department of Architecture at Unitec Institute of Technology (Auckland, New Zealand). She has also taught at Art and the City summer schools in Vienna and Graz from 2013 to 2015. She teaches Contemporary architecture, Art and architecture, and Serbian architecture in the 20^th century at the University of Niš.

The author, who has published several monographs, including Belgrade: The 21st Century Metropolis of Southeast Europe (Springer, 2020) and Public Art and Urban Memorials in Berlin (Springer, 2018) as part of The Urban Books Series, also wrote Visual Impressions: Architecture and Art in Public Space in Graz (Leykam, 2012), the first in a series of publications on the culture of public spaces in Graz, which was published in both German and English. She has demonstrated her expertise in the field of architecture by authoring the textbook Contemporary Architecture and its Development from the End of the 19th Century to Today (Službeni glasnik, 2022, in Serbian) and the biography of Denise Scott Brown (Springer, 2023).

From 2005 to 2011 she worked as an artist in Graz, Austria, and had a gallery representation with Marion Fischer Art Moments.