Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss (Subotica 1967 - Novi Sad 2022) was a Harvard educated research architect from Serbia, artist and theorist living and working from New York and Berlin.
This book, in an interesting way, deals with depicting the major political shifts and turbulence periods in former Yugoslav and Serbian recent past through contexts of construction or deconstruction of symbolically charged buildings.
Weiss curated and designed exhibitions in the United States of visionaries from the recent past: Lina Bo Bardi - 30 Years of MASP (at Columbia GSAPP), Yona Frieddman: About Cities (at The Drawing Center) and Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry (at ICA Philadelphia and Graham Foundation, Chicago).
The exhibition: ArchiLeaks: In the Praise of Water Leaks, shown during October and November 2019 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje, Northern Macedonia marks Jovanovic Weiss' new and epistemological approach to mine data from errors in spatial knowledge and turn them into value.
[10] Jovanovic Weiss previously collaborated with Richard Gluckman and Herzog & de Meuron Architects and artists Jenny Holzer, Anne Tyng, Yona Friedman, Eyal Weizman, Marjetica Potrč, Yevgheniy Fiks and Robert Wilson.
Most recently Jovanovic Weiss is resident artist at PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Impacts via DAAD/Berlin with a project Better than Weather: In Praise of Human Search for Comfort.