Author Biographies

• Nataša Koselj

  is an architect and Associate Professor with a PhD (2003, University of Ljubljana) on post-war architecture in Slovenia. She completed MARC2002 MoMo conservation course in Finland and did part of her PhD studies at Oxford Brookes University. Since 2004, she has been serving as Chair of Docomomo Slovenia. In 2008, she was a guest researcher at the Docomomo International Headquarters, Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine in Paris as a member of the ISC/Registers. She curated numerous exhibitions, published over 200 articles and books (she wrote the chapter ‘The Balkans and Greece’ in Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture, 2020), and was awarded the Plečnik Medal for her monograph on the architect Danilo Fürst (2014). Her publication, Architecture of the 60s in Slovenia (1995), represents a pioneering synthesis in the field. In 2018, she co-organized the 15th International Docomomo Conference in Ljubljana.

• Mejrema Zatrić, International University of Sarajevo

  is an architect, architectural historian, and assistant professor at the International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her research focuses on the relations between architecture and the environment, Yugoslav modern architecture and genealogies of modernist regionalism in the Western Balkans and beyond. She holds a doctoral degree from ETH Zurich and a Master of Architecture and Urban Culture from the Metropolis program of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. She has been a curatorial advisory board member for the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980, and holds a certificate of the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) in Los Angeles for the conservation of modern architecture. She is Chair of Docomomo Bosnia-Herzegovina and co-founder of the Archive of Modern Architecture of Bosnia and Herzegovina.