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Milica Topalovic (born 1971) is a Serbian architect, and associate professor of Architecture and Territorial Planning at the Architecture Department of ETHZ. Graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade, she received a Master’s degree from the Dutch Berlage Institute for her thesis on Belgrade’s post-socialist urban transformation. She was head of research at the Studio Basel Contemporary City Institute created by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. She taught research studios on cities and on territories such as Hong Kong and the Nile Valley. Since 2000, she worked on projects in different spatial scales and visual media. She authored and edited Belgrade. Formal / Informal: A Research on Urban Transformation, and The Inevitable Specificity of Cities. She contributes essays on urbanism, architecture and art to various magazines and publications.

A writer, academic researcher, and curator, Topalovic works at the threshold between architecture, territory, and planning. Prior to her professorship at ETHZ, Topalovic held an assistant professorship at the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore.