Darko Radovic

Darko Radović is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Keio University, Tokyo and a Visiting Professor at the United Nations University, Tokyo. Darko received his doctorate in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He has taught, researched and practised architecture and urbanism in Europe, Australia and Asia. He held senior academic positions at the University of Belgrade, University of Melbourne, University of Tokyo and at Keio University (current).

Darko Radović‟s research focuses at the nexus between environmental and cultural sustainability and situations where architecture and urban design overlap, where traditional “architectural” and “urban” scales blur, where social starts to acquire physical form. His coordinated investigations of the concepts of urbanity and sustainable development focus on culturally and environmentally diverse contexts which expose difference and offer encounter with the other. He argues that neither the path of ecological nor that of cultural sustainability can be undertaken separately, and indeed that there is no viable future without their harmonious synthesis. On that basis, he has developed the concept of eco-urbanity, which constitutes one of the hubs of his recent research, teaching activities and publications.

Over the last several years Dr Radović has guest-lectured in France, Japan, Serbia and Monte Negro, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, UK and Vietnam. He has published in Europe, Australia and Asia, in English, Serbo-Croatian, Japanese and Thai. His research books include Green City (2005, Routledge/UNSW Press; with Low, Gleeson, Green); Urbophilia (2007 the University of Belgrade Public Art Public Space publishers), Cross-Cultural Urban Design (2007, Routledge, with Bull, Boontharm, Parin, Tapie), Another Tokyo (2008, University of Tokyo and ichii Shobou) and ecourbanity (2009, Routledge).