Keynote Speakers

Dr Ružica Božovič Stamenović

University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade, Serbia and National University of Singapore, Singapore

Associate Professor, specialized in Danish housing at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Dr Božovič-Stamenović has joined the University of Belgrade in 1989 and the National University of Singapore NUS from 2000-2011. Since 2011, she works as a full time associate Professor in Belgrade and visiting academic lecturing in semester 2 in NUS, Singapore. Faculty Fellow at TAMU Center for Health Systems and Design, Texas A&M University, USA and Member of Executive Board of the UIA Public Health Group and GUPHA-Global University Programs in Healthcare Architecture. Her research interest is in Human Ecology-space and health, healthful architecture for mega-mature societies and health restoring design processes. Author of two books, a number of book chapters, peer reviewed journal articles and conference papers and a frequent speaker and invited lecturer at scientific conferences worldwide (USA, Australia, France, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, etc.). Dr Bozovic – Stamenovic is awarded with the 2014 Berkeley Prize Teaching Fellowship, endorsed by the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Architecture, College of Environment Design, for the academic course curricula titled: “Teaching Healthful Architecture”. For her design work Dr Božovič-Stamenović won major national architectural awards: October Salon (1998), Salon of Architecture (1998, 1991, 1991), Borba (1992), and a number of national and international competition prizes including the prestigious Aldo Rossi’s Selection for the 2nd Biennale of Architecture Venice, Italy in 1985 and the national selection for the 8th Biennale of Venice Exhibition NEXT- Destruction & Construction in 2002.

Associate Professor. He studied History at the University of Groningen and he was awarded a PhD in 1993 for a thesis entitled "Welvaartsstad in wording". De wederopbouw van Rotterdam 1940-1952’ (about the rebuilding programme in the city of Rotterdam after Second World War). In his role as academic advisor, Wagenaar was closely involved in writing a book and organizing a conference entitled ‘Architecture of Hospitals’, which was held at the UMCG in 2005. He has been working as an associate professor in the chair History of Architecture and Urban Planning of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of Delft University of Technology. From 1st January 2014, Dr Cor Wagenaar has been appointed professor by special appointment in Architecture, Urbanism and Health at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen. The Chair has been established by the Thomassen à Thuessink Foundation. Which fits into the Healthy Ageing strategic focus area of the University of Groningen and the UMCG. Dr Cor Wagenaar teaching and research mandate thus includes a study of the built environment, as well as research into architectural and urban planning designed to benefit the health of the urban population. In this way, he links the history of architecture and urban planning with current social-societal, policy-based and spatial developments in healthcare.

Dr Cor Wagenaar

Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Nederlands

Professor and Senior Architect in charge at Ressano Garcia Arquitectos. For the last years he has been researching the transformation of port cities and waterfront regeneration under the frame of ecology and healthy city. In his office in Lisbon, theory and practice are combined in projects of architecture, urban design and participation in international competitions. He started teaching at U.C. Berkeley, since 1997 to the present teaches in Lisbon at Universidade Lusófona and is a visiting teacher at International Workshops. Since 2010 is the coordinator of the European Workshop on Waterfront Urban Design. Awarded with Calouste Gulbenkian and Fundação Ciência e Tecnologia grants. He has published widely in books, magazines and international conferences. In 2010 received the Pancho Guedes Architecture Award.

Dr Ilka Čerpes

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Architecture, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Architect, Doctor of Science and Assistant Professor in Urban Planning. She is the author of the monograph Urbanistično načrtovanje ('Urban Planning'), of the collection of papers O urbanizmu ('On Urban Planning') and co-author of several professional monographs. As part of teaching staff exchange, she was a visiting professor at five renowned European schools of architecture in France, Germany, Great Britain and Switzerland. She is Area Editor for Urban Planning at the international scientific journal Igra ustvarjalnosti/The Creativity Game and member of the Scientific Committee of the scientific conference Pametni urbanizem. At the Faculty of Architecture she carries out the tasks of Deputy Head of the Chair of Urbanism and works as tutor coordinator. She is the author of many architecture and urban design studies and projects, which have been recognised by the national and international professional community. She is a co-author of two retrospective exhibitions of architecture in the Kresija Gallery in Ljubljana and associated with renowned associations of architects. She was president of the Association of Architects of Ljubljana (DAL) for two terms of office,member of the commission for awarding the prestigious architecture award conferred by the Jože Plečnik Fund, member of several domestic and European competition panels and member of the Slovenian committee of the European association Europan.

Dr Pedro Ressano Garcia

Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon, Portugal

Roger Riewe was trained at the RWTH Aachen. He then founded Riegler Riewe Architekten in Graz in 1987. Further offices were founded in Cologne in 2008 and in Katowice in 2010. The office has become an internationally renowned, with projects in Austria, Germany, Poland, Croatia, Korea, Switzerland and USA. The focus is on public buildings, infrastructure projects and urban design. The realized projects have received numerous international awards and distinctions. Roger Riewe has been guest professor in Prague, Houston, Barcelona, Aachen, Calgary and Graz. He has lectured worldwide with a specific focus on structure, space and technology. In 2001 he was appointed professor at the Graz University of Technology, where he is since then head of the Institute of Architecture Technology.