Dr Ruzica Bozovic Stamenovic

Dr Ružica Božović Stamenović was, until recently, associate professor at the University of Belgrade, having joined in 1989. She is now associate professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), having also worked at the university as a visiting professor between 2000 and 2011.

She is a faculty fellow at TAMU Center for Health Systems and Design, Texas A&M University, USA, and a member of the 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.

She is the 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.

Dr Bozovic Stamenovic was awarded the 2014 Berkeley Prize Teaching Fellowship, endorsed by the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Architecture, College of Environment Design. For her design work, she has won several major national architectural awards: October Salon (1998); Salon of Architecture (1998, 1991, 1991); Borba (1992); as well as 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.