With the title of professor in the field of Architecture at the University of Ljubljana
Darko Radović
PhD
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First-Cycle University Study Programme Urbanism (UŠU)
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Duties and responsibilitiesHigher education teacher with the title of professor in the field of Architecture at the University of Ljubljana.
Darko Radović is an architect and urbanist, co-founder of co+re.platform for strategic thinking making and living better cities, operating from Tokyo, Bangkok, Milano, Ljubljana. He is Emeritus Professor at Keio University, Tokyo, and Professor of Architecture, University of Ljubljana. Over the years, Darko has initiated and was involved in initiating, design, organisation and management of diverse international, collaborative academic (teaching, research) programmes and institutions in Europe, Australia and Asia. His work seeks the nexus between environmental and cultural sustainability in situations where architecture and urban design overlap, where social starts to acquire physical form. Darko’s investigations of the concepts of urbanity and sustainable development focus on culturally and environmentally diverse contexts which offer encounter with the other and expose difference. His concepts of eco-urbanity, radical realism and urbophilia as praxis of eco-urbanity, are the hubs of his teaching, research, practice and publications. His recent efforts include critical explorations of cross-cultural communication, including the (im)possibility of translation. Darko has published in Europe, Australia and Asia, in English, Serbo-Croatian, Italian, Japanese and Thai languages.
Online: https://urbophilia.substack.com/
Scientific research activity
“Using ink, coffee and wine I sketch people and spaces ... “, in Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice, (Intellect Books, forthcoming 2026)
“On the value of non- understanding in urban research”, in The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Research Methods, (eds. H. Kamalipour, P. Aelbrecht, N. Peimani), pp. 294-303 (2024)
“On Research Across Cultural Difference: questions for streets with no names, where eyes never meet”, in Architectural Identities: Japan, SAJ Journal, volume 15 issue 1, (ed, I. Filipović, 2024)
“Positive Arrogance Hypothesis,” with D. Boontharm, in Mirages of the Future, exhibition catalogue of the National Pavilion of Montenegro (curated and edited by Zoran Lazović, La Biennale Architettura 2023, Venice; (2023)
“Tokyo lived - YeNeSen, Okurayama, Jiyugaoka, Spectacle, Future”, shinkenchiku a+u book, (2021)
Infraordinary Tokyo : the right to the city / [edited by Darko Radović]. Tokyo : A + U Publishing, cop. 2021. (A + U : Architecture and urbanism ; 2021, 11, special issue)
“The Strange Idea of the Public: No, hiroba (広場) is not public space; so what?!”, Routledge Companion to Public Space (eds. V. Mehta, D. Palazzo) pp. (2020)
“Tokyo 2017: Lo straordinario nell’ ordinario”, in Tokyo, Corriere della Serra, Milano, pp. 6-9 (2017)
“In the search of Urbanity”, in In the Search of Urban Quality: 100 maps of Kuhonbutsugawa Street (with D. Boontharm), edition Tokyo: flick Studio, pp. 4-7, pp. 10-23 (2014)
“Towards radical realism - contextualising eco-urbanity”, in Exploring our Sustainable Future Socio-economic and Cultural Transfiguration and the Systemic Sustainability under the Globalization Dynamics (eds. Kawamura, Jinna, Nishina (2014)
In the search of urban quality : 100 maps of Kuhonbutsugawa Street, Jiyugaoka / [authors Darko Radović with Davisi Boontharm]. Tokyo : Flick studio, cop. 2014. (Measuring the non-measurable ; 8)
Subjectivities in investigations of the urban : the scream, the shadow, an the mirror / [edited by Darko Radović]. Tokyo : Flick studio, cop. 2014. (Measuring the non-measurable ; 6)
“Memories”, in Mein Tokio, My Tokyo, 私の東京 1953-2013, Benedikt H. publ., Stuttgart: Edition Esefelf &Traub, pp. 43-47 (2013)
Tokyo dérive - in search of urban intensities / [edited and introduced by Darko Radović]. Tokyo : Flick studio, cop. 2013. (Measuring the non-measurable ; 4)
Intensities in ten cities / [edited and introduced by Darko Radović]. Tokyo : Flick studio, cop. 2013. (Measuring the non-measurable ; 3)
“The greatness of small”, in FUTURE–ASIAN-SPACE: Projecting the urban space of new East Asia (eds. Hee, Viray, Boontharm), pp. 159-170, Singapore: NUS Press (2012)
“On threats to small spaces and practices that make Tokyo – Tokyo”, in small Tokyo, Mn’M edition Tokyo: flick Studio and IKI, pp. 104-109 (ed., Radović, Boontharm; 2012)
“Split derive: getting to know the city”, in The Split Case: density, intensity, resilience, Mn’M edition Tokyo: flick Studio, pp. 6-13) (ed., Radović, Kuma, Boontharm, Grgić; 2012)
Small Tokyo / edited by Darko Radović and Davisi Boontharm. Tokyo : Flick studio, cop. 2012. (Measuring the non-measurable ; 1)
The split case : density, intensity, resilience / edited by Darko Radović ... [et al.]. Tokyo : Flick studio, cop. 2012. (Measuring the non-measurable ; 0)
“Right to the City - on bridges and the essence of public life”, in intentcity, Melbourne: Architects for Peace pp. 7-29 (2010)
Eco-urbanity : towards well-mannered built environments / edited by Darko Radović. London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
“The Memories of the War and Tomorrow”, in Sustainable Site Design (ed. cSUR), Shokokusha Publ, Tokyo, pp. 118-121 (2008)
“The World City Hypothesis Revisited: Export and import of urbanity is a dangerous business”, in World Cities and Urban Form, Jenks, M., Kozak, D., Takkanon, P. (eds), Routledge (2008)
Another Tokyo: Nezu and Yanaka, places and practices of urban resistance / Darko Radović. Tokyo : University of Tokyo, ichii Shobou, 2008.
Cross-cultural urban design : global or local practice? / edited by Catherin Bull, Davisi Boontharm, Claire Parin, Darko Radović. London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Urbophilia / Darko Radović, Zoran Djukanović ; editors Olga Mladenović, Živojin Kara-Pešić. Belgrade : Faculty of Architecture, 2007.
The green city : sustainable homes, sustainable suburbs / by Nicholas Low, Brendon Gleeson, Ray Green, Darko Radović. Sydney : UNSW Press ; Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, cop. 2005.