Jana Revedin

Who is Jana Revedin?

Jana Revedin is an architect who holds the professorship of architecture and design at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden.

She was born in 1965 in Constance, Germany where she trained as a cabinetmaker before studying architecture and urban planning in Buenos Aires, Princeton and at Milan Polytechnic, gaining her diploma in 1991 with a thesis entitled The Concept of Open Space in the Social Architecture of the German Avant-Garde.

From 1991 she taught as Aldo Rossi’s assistant at the IUAV Venice, where she qualified as a teacher of architecture and was awarded a PhD for her dissertation: Monument and Modernity: Hallenbauten as the Elements of Construction of the Democratic Town. She has been an associate professor at Spittal University of Applied Science and Umea University and is a guest professor at Alpen Adria University Klagenfurt. The author of numerous publications on sustainable design in architecture and urban planning explores the relevance and the ecological, economic, social and cultural quality of the existing in a given place in her “radicant” Design theory.