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Dustin Andreas Tusnovics, born 11 November 1962, Vienna, known as Dustin Tusnovics, is Austrian and Italian citizen and is now a practising architect in Johannesburg/South Africa.

Biography

Dustin Tusnovics was born in Vienna/Austria, spent his first years in Iran and Lebanon and came back to Austria in 1975 where he matriculated in 1981. He studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology and the IUAV in Venice/Italy graduating in 1996, and in 2005 concluded his doctorate (PhD) at the Technical University Vienna. Tusnovics has opened his private practize "architecture&communication" in 1996 in Vienna realising works in Austria Germany and Italy. Tusnovics has been involved in a series of innovative office projects that enhance change processes on organisational and social aspects. He has been teaching at various Universities accross Europe like Vienna/Austria, Venice/Italy and Tirana/Albania and was HOD at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences. His papers and lectures have been held and published accross Europe. Tusnovics has moved to Johannesburg/South Africa in 2010 and joined forces with Sarah Calburn forming Spacematters architecture & urbanism in 2011

Awards

In December 2010, together with architect Sarah Calburn, Dustin Tusnovics won third prize in the Urbaninform Design Contest in Zurich, Switzerland, for their project Taking the Gap. The jury commented on its strong design, considering it to be a critical initiative for social housing in South Africa. This lead to the formation of Spacematters architecture & urbanism.

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