Professor
Departament of Urbanism
Number of cabinet:
253
Narrow scientific field:
urbanism and spatial planning
Research areas:
urban design and planning; urban renewal; regeneration and protection of architectural heritage.
Eva Vaništa Lazarević (1961) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb (1983) and attended postgraduate studies in the field of protection of architectural heritage in Split and Dubrovnik. She spent three years in Paris (1986-1989). She defended her master’s thesis in 1990 at the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb, and in 1991 she began her university career at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade. She received her PhD in the field of urban renewal in 1997 at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade. In 2008, she became a full professor at the same faculty. As a visiting professor, she has taught at the faculties in Paris (Val de Marne Faculty), Gdansk (Gdansk Faculty of Technology), Sopot (Sopot School Wysza), Yekaterinburg (Yekaterinburg Ural) and Turin (Politechnico di Torino).
She is an active and accomplished architect in practice. In her office Atelier Eva Vanista Lazarevic (“Atelier Eva Vanista Lazarevic” www.atelierevl.com) she has performed dozens of different projects, from residential buildings, through business complexes and hotels, to the realized mega projects in Belgrade and beyond. She participated in the architectural competition for a five-star hotel in Becici, Montenegro, for which she received the first prize and a project of 80,000 square meters for a foreign investor was adopted. Out of about twenty architectural and urban competitions in which she participated, she received several international and nine national awards.
She is the author of more than 50 scientific papers related to international and national journals and conferences. She is part of the editorial board of Cambridge Publications and Elsevier’s Energy and Building. She has participated in several world congresses in the field of sustainable development and urbanism, among which the one in Hong Kong and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland stand out. She is the founder and director of the international conference “Places and Technologies” www.placesandtechnologies.eu.
She has several different positions, today as a member of the Council of the Faculty of Architecture and in the Urban Section of the Chamber of Engineers. Until now, she has been active in two terms as Head of the Department of Urbanism, as Chief Engineer in the Ministry of Social Work and Policy of the Republic of Serbia on Japanese donations, as Advisor to the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning of the Republic of Serbia for Architecture and Urbanism, City Government of Belgrade. She is a member of the scientific committee of the organization “ISOCARP” (www.isocarp.org), the National Committee of UNESCO, as well as the organization “Europa Nostra”. As a special consultant she works on the Mega project “Skyline” (www.afi-group.eu), in Belgrade.
Eva Vaništa Lazarević has so far published two monographs (textbooks) in the field of urban renewal, both of which have been awarded: Urban Reconstruction (Urbana rekonstrukcija) (1999) and Renewal of Cities in the New Millennium (Obnova gradova u novom milenijumu) (2003). In addition, she organized Specialist Studies under the same title “Reconstruction of Cities in the New Millennium” at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade.
She is a participant in domestic and international scientific research projects:”Research and systematization of housing construction in Serbia in the context of globalization and European integration in order to improve the quality and standards of housing” – TR 36034 (2012-19) (“Истраживање и систематизација стамбене изградње у Србији у контексту глобализације и европских интеграција у циљу унапређења квалитета и стандарда становања”); “Spatial, ecological, energy and social aspects of settlement development and climate change – mutual influences” – TR 36035 (2012-19) („Просторни, еколошки, енергетски и друштвени аспекти развоја насеља и климатске промене – међусобни утицаји“); Cultural Heritage of the Danube as a Tool to Develop Local Opportunities and Common Brand of Underprivileged Communities – DANUrB + / 2020-22 / INTERREG EU Danube Transnational Program / Communication manager & researcher; CREATIVE DANUBE: Innovative Teaching for Inclusive Development in Small and Medium-Sized Danubian Cities / 2019-2022 / Erasmus + KA203 Cooperation Program / Communication Manager & Researcher.
Married, mother of two daughters. She speaks English and French.
- E: eva@arh.bg.ac.rs
- P: +381 11 3218 753
