Bureau VIA – Vojvodić Ivanović Architects, established in 2007 as a result of the merger until then independent professional career of Jelena Ivanović Vojvodić and Goran Vojvodić. The main activity of the Bureau is the architectural design of various types of buildings, reconstruction of existing facilities, interior design etc. Production and creative scope of the bureau is reflected in the large number of executed projects in the field of housing, commercial and industrial buildings. Bureau VIA features contemporary architectural expression, both in the formal and functional terms and in the field of applied materials and technologies and energy efficiency.
In addition to the Founders, the Bureau engaged 6 to 8 Architects, depending on the workload, which, in cooperation with installation designers and professional consultants deliver a complete project documentation and perform technical control and supervision over the construction of the building.
Jelena Ivanović Vojvodić was born in 1962 in Prizren, Serbia. She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Belgrade in 1987 under the mentorship of Prof. Milan Lojanica. She obtained her Ph.D. in Technical Sciences under the mentorship of Prof. Aleksandra Stupar, PhD with a thesis titled “Spaces of Universities and Scientific Complexes in Contemporary Transformations of the City” (2016).
From 1984-85, she worked at the office of Andrew Kalik Associates in Reading, England; from 1987-1991, she was an independent designer at the Traffic Institute CIP in Belgrade; from 1991-1994, she worked as a senior independent designer at the Economic Bureau in Belgrade; from 1994-96, she worked at Farman in Budapest, Hungary; from 1996-98, she was at Far&Man in Belgrade; and from 2003-07, she worked at Beogas-Akvaterm. She also served at the Faculty of Design and Arts at Megatrend University (2009-2017) as dean, vice-dean, and full professor. She served as the program team leader for the international competition for Block 39 in New Belgrade and was the Design Coordinator for the Center for the Promotion of Science in Belgrade, Serbia, within Eptisa, an international company specializing in engineering, architecture, and information technology, based in Spain (2011-2015).
She co-founded the architectural firm Biro VIA d.o.o. Belgrade with Goran Vojvodić in 2007. She has realized over 30 projects, interiors, and plans with a significant number of professional awards and successful engagements in competition activities. She served as the president of the Society of Architects of Belgrade (2004-08) and was a member of the Court of Honor of the Engineering Chamber of Serbia (2005-09).
She is one of the founders of the BINA project (Belgrade International Architecture Week) organized by the Society of Architects of Belgrade and the Belgrade Cultural Centre, as well as the NGO organizations Dokomomo Serbia and the Women in Architecture Society (WIAS). She is a member of the Society of Architects of Belgrade (DAB), the Association of Architects of Serbia (UAS), and the Engineering Chamber of Serbia (IKS). She is married and has two children.
Goran Vojvodić (born in 1959, Belgrade) graduated from the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture in 1986. He has had professional engagements at IMS, Energoprojekt, CIP, and since 1989 at the architectural office of Prof. W. J. Krings in the SR Germany. Since 1992, he has been working in his own office, and in 2007, he co-founded BIRO.VIA with Jelena Ivanović Vojvodić, PhD. Since 2014, he has been employed as a professor at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture.
Professional engagements: He is a member of the boards of the Society of Architects of Belgrade, the Museum of the History of Yugoslavia, DOCOMOMO Serbia, the Architect Ivanka Terzin Foundation, the Association of Architects of Serbia (UAS), the Engineering Chamber of Serbia (IKS), the organizational team of the Belgrade International Architecture Week (BINA), as well as the Academy of Architecture.
He has been involved in the design of residential and residential buildings, hotels, business and shopping centers, sports facilities of various purposes, adaptations and reconstructions of buildings, interiors of public and private spaces, etc. He has realized a significant number of projects in the country and abroad.
He has participated in over 40 events between 1991 and 2023 (International Architecture Biennale in Venice, XXI World Congress of Architecture in Berlin, solo and collective exhibitions in Moscow, Prague, Paris, Barcelona, Vienna, Melbourne, Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš, etc.).
Selected references: He has realized a significant number of projects in the country and abroad: Administrative building of KSJ, Sports and Business Complex Gemax, business buildings Anex, Roaming, Coning, Porsche SCG (all in Belgrade), Hemofarm (in Bad Homburg), bank buildings, city halls, kindergartens in Neuhäusel, Dresden, Ormont (all SR Germany), exhibition service salons Audi, Porsche, Volkswagen; residential buildings for Dexon, Gemax, Exing, City Properties. He is the author of the reconstruction of the buildings of the Belgrade Philharmonic, the French Cultural Center, the exhibition salons Graniti Fiandre, the Museum of the City of Belgrade, as well as interiors of boutiques, restaurants, business premises, residential buildings, etc.
He is the author of the monographs “My Architecture” (Birovia, Belgrade, 2012) and “Architecture of Details” (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade, 2019).
Exhibitions and awards: Awarded (27 awards and recognitions) for realized works in the country and abroad by the Museum of Applied Arts, the Architecture Salon in Novi Sad, the Association of Architects of Serbia, BPB Trophy, BIG SEE Architecture Award, the Association of Architects of Serbia. He is the recipient of the Borba Award for Architecture, the April Award of the City of Belgrade for Architecture and Urbanism, as well as the Grand Prize for Architecture of the Association of Architects for Lifetime Achievement.
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