Jana Revedin

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  Jana Revedin
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Jana Revedin is since 2010 associate professor in Sustainable Architecture at Umeå School of Architecture, Sweden. She studied in Buenos Aires, Princeton and at Milan Polytechnic, teaching since 1991 as Aldo Rossi’s assistant at the IUAV Venice, where in 1999 she obtained a PhD in Architecture and Town planning. She was guest professor at Federico II. University of Naples, FH Spittal and Beuth TH Berlin. From 1996 she runs her own architectural practice in Venice and in Villach, specialized in Sustainable Architecture. Jana Revedin is author of numerous works on the reformatory architecture of the Early German Moderns and recently published “Sustainable Design: Towards a new Ethic in Architecture and Town planning” (Birkhäuser). She is at present curator of the biennial gau:di European Student Competition for Sustainable Architecture and curator of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, that she founded in 2006. She created the LOCUS Foundation to run this Award in scientific independence and is member of the Boards of Blu in Architecture and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre.

www.arch.umu.se

www.revedin.com

www.locus-foundation.org

Bibliography

Marie-Hélène Contal & Jana Revedin, “Sustainable Design II: Towards a New Ethic in Architecture and Town Planning”, Actes Sud, 2011 Jana Revedin, „Lysis“, Wieser, Klagenfurt 2011 Marie-Hélène Contal & Jana Revedin, “Sustainable Design: Towards a New Ethic in Architecture and Town Planning”, Birkhäuser, Berlin/Bale/Boston 2009 Otto Kapfinger, “Jana Revedin: Woodframe-Housing Westend Wernberg“ in: “Neue Architektur in Kärnten“, Pustet, Salzburg 2005 Jana Revedin, “Monument and Modernity: Elements in the Construction of the Avant-Garde Town”, Iuav Venice 2000 Jana Revedin, “Carinthian Gardens. Historical and Contemporary Garden Design”, Heyn, Klagenfurt 1996 Jana Revedin, “The Concept of Open Space in the Social Architecture of the German Avant-Garde” Milan Polytechnic 1991