Vedran Mimica, Hrvatska – ENG

Born in Zagreb in 1954. Professor of architecture and spatial planning at the IIT, Chicago. He joined the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam in 1990, and he was the last dean of the Institute from 2007 to 2012. He has taught at the Architectural Association, ETH, Sorbonne, Columbia, MIT, UCLA and the Catholic University of Chile, Santiago. Publications: Randić&Turato, The Architecture of Transition, Croatian Archipelago New Lighthouses, Contemporary Croatian Architecture: Testing Reality. From 2003 to 2012 he was an independent expert for the Mies van der Rohe Award of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. In 2013, with Wiel Arets, he launched the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize. Curator of the International Biennale Rotterdam in 2007, as well as of the Croatian national participation at the Venice Biennale in 2006.