DRAWING ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH
Snežana Zlatković (born in Belgrade, 1988) holds a Master’s degree (2012) and a Doctorate (Drawing as a Methodological Tool for Reading the Cityscape, 2023) from the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture. She was awarded the "Sestre Bulajić" Foundation Prize for the best graduate project at the Faculty of Architecture in 2012, under the mentorship of Professor Dejan Miljković.
Since 2010, she has gained professional experience in several architectural offices, most notably at Energoprojekt (2014–2017) and LFG Studio (2017–2018), where she participated in both national and international projects—from architectural competitions to construction processes.
Since 2018, she has been employed as a teaching assistant at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture, where she teaches at undergraduate, integrated, and master’s academic levels. She has presented her scientific research at numerous national and international conferences and has been published in several journals, as well as in the Drawing Futures book (The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, 2016).
In 2017, she founded her own studio, sz.dar (Drawing Architecture Research), focused on exploring drawing as a methodological tool in both scientific and architectural-artistic work. Her drawings have been exhibited and recognized internationally — in the USA, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, the UK, Italy, South Korea, Romania, Serbia, Spain, and more. She has received numerous awards and accomplishments, including:
2025 11th International CFA Artist of the Month Award, Circle Foundation for the Arts – Honourable Mention
2024 "Zadrugarstvo 2025" Graphic Competition, Category: Digital Graphic, Serbia – Category Winner
2024 Salon of Architecture – Novi Sad, Category: Digital Space and Experiment in Architecture, Urban Design and Interior Design, Serbia – Honourable Mention
2024 8th International CFA Artist of the Month Award, Circle Foundation for the Arts – Honourable Mention
2023 Avanguard Belgrade, Marburg Wallcovering and Mara Home, Serbia – First Award - Winner
2023 Call for Drawings, KooZA/rch – Winner
2022 Meta-City, NonArchitecture Competitions – Honourable Mention
2021 Collector's Vision International Art Award, Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, Contemporary Art Collectors – Winner
2021 Salon of Architecture – Belgrade, Category: Experiment and Research, Serbia – Recognition
2021 My Cityscape Drawing Competition - Mapping the City of the 21st Century, Desplans and KooZA/rch – Winner
2020 STRAND On Architecture: Learning Architecture, Category: Innovation in Art, Architecture, Science & Technology in Digital Age, Serbia – Mention
2020 Salon of Architecture – Belgrade, Category: Experiment and Research, Serbia – Recognition
2020 INDEF 2020, International Artwork Competition, Category: Drawing, Illustration and Painting, Unidesign Management Research Institute, South Korea – Category Winner
2019 One Drawing Challenge, Architizer – Finalist
2019 KRob – Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition, The United States – Finalist
2018 STRAND On Architecture: New Materials and Design in Architecture and Art, Category: Innovation in Architecture, Science & technology in Digital Era, Serbia – Mention
2018 Royal Art Prize, La Galleria Pall Mall, The United Kingdom – Finalist
2017 RIBA Eye Line Drawing Competition, Royal Institute of British Architects and AVR London, The United Kingdom – Commendation
2016 Drawing of the Year, Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark – Special Mention
2016 STRAND Category: New Media, Serbia – Recognition
Since 2018, she has been a member of the group of architects Modern in Belgrade (Iva Bekić, Irena Gajić, Dalia Dukanac, Stefan Đorđević, Snežana Zlatković, Mirjana Ješić, Hristina Meseldžija, Petar Cigić). This group established a platform aimed at promoting and critically analyzing Belgrade’s architectural heritage through innovative graphic representationsand models. They presented them through five solo exhibitions in 2019. The Modern in Belgrade represented Serbia at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2021 and published 8th Kilometer: Pavilion of Serbia at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. The group has received several recognitions, including:
2022 Architectural Event of the Year Award, The Association of Belgrade Architects, Serbia – Honourable Mention
2021 "Ranko Radović" Award, Category: Television Shows, Exhibitions and Multimedia Presentations, Serbia – Category Award
2021 STRAND Facing the Future – New Challenges, Serbia – Micro Macro Grand Award
2020 "Ranko Radović" Award, Category: Television Shows, Exhibitions and Multimedia Presentations, Serbia – Category Award
2020 Public Competition for the Selection of the Project to Represent the Republic of Serbia at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2021, The Association of Belgrade Architects, Serbia – First Prize Award
Since 2023, she has been collaborating with the APSS Institute (founded by Dijana Vučinić), a platform dedicated to architectural discourse focused on post-war cities in Yugoslavia and transitional urban conditions in coastal Montenegro. As part of the APSS Institute team (Dijana Vučinić, Ana Dobrašinović, Snežana Zlatković, Luka Bošković, Milica Kavedžić, Slavica Danilović, Nikolina Đukanović, Srđan Tomović), she participated in the exhibition At the Beach (2024), presented within the German Pavilion at the Mies van der Rohe Foundation in Barcelona. They collaborated for the first time at the workshop KotorAPSS 2017: Temporary, organized by the APSS Institute and received recognition:
2018 Тhe Third Salon of Architecture, Category: Research and Experiment (mentor: D. Vučinić/APSS Institute, N. Radeljković/Numen for use, co-authors: A. Aleksić, B. Bobičić, M. Đikanović, G. Pawlowska, A. Scheinman, D. Todorović), Montenegro – Commendation
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