Sinisha Brdar earned a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Montreal (1998) and holds a master’s degree in the history and theory of architecture from Harvard GSD (2006). He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Fulbright Fellowship and the Watkins Fellowship. A professor at the UQAM School of Design since 2014, he has taught at the University of Montreal, McGill, and Harvard GSD.
This architect and urban designer has over 20 years of experience across various fields of architectural, landscape, and urban design practice. He has worked at numerous architectural firms in Canada and internationally, including the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), Maccreanor Lavington, Daoust Lestage, and NIP Paysage. He is a co-founder of the EKIP collective, a group dedicated to the exploratory practice of architectural, landscape, and urban design.
His research focuses on the contemporary urban condition and its intersections with landscape and infrastructure, particularly from the perspective of the emerging paradigm of landscape urbanism. His areas of interest also include the relationship between architecture and politics, the role of utopia in design, the potential of critical architecture, material culture, and the challenges of contemporary living.