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Miro Roman is an architect and a scholar. His main focus is the overlap of information technologies and architectural articulations. Miro explores, designs, codes, and writes about architecture while playing with a lot; with ‘all’ the buildings, books, images; with clouds, avatars, streams, lists, indexes, and pixels. What is this abundance of information about, how to handle it, and how does it shape the way we think about the world? To navigate and surf this vast flows, Miro codes and articulates synthetic alphabets.
Miro is currently a lecturer and a postdoctoral researcher at the chair for Digital Architectonics at ETH Zurich. From 2004 to 2017 he was a part of the project romanvlahovic. From 2013 to 2015 he was a part of the Future Cities Laboratory, the interdisciplinary research programme of the Singapore ETH Centre for Global Environmental Sustainability (SEC), where he coedited A Quantum City book.
miro(at)romanvlahovic.com
Exhibitions
11.2020 Ask.Homo Effluviens, as a part of Terra Effluviens (with Nikola Bojić, Branko Petrović, Damir Gamulin); You and I Don’t Live on the Same Planet; Taipei Biennial 2020, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
09.2020 Ask.Homo Effluviens, as a part of Terra Effluviens (with Nikola Bojić, Branko Petrović, Damir Prizmić, Damir Gamulin, Miodrag Galović, Ivo Vičić); Dopolavoro; Rijeka 2020 – European Capital of Culture; Rijeka, Croatia
10.2015 Lacescape Table, WantedDesign; Ikon Arts Foundation; Croatian Design Showcase, New York, USA
01.2015 Urban Dyptich – photographic mosaic, Destruction & Rebirth, The Mill, Singapore
10.2014 Lacescape Table, Ljubljana Month Of Design 2014, Brands & Signs, Ljubljana, Slovenia
09.2014 Lacescape Table, Exhibition of Croatian Design 1314, Zagreb, Croatia
06.2014 Lacescape Table, D-Day; 5. International Design Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
06.2013 Object vs. Population – 3d Printed Generative Jewellery, D-Day; 4. International Design Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
12.2012 Hvidra Memorial, The 47th Zagreb Salon of Architecture, Zagreb, Croatia
10.2012 Object vs. Population – 3d Printed Generative Jewellery, Ljubljana Month Of Design 2012, Design Expo, Ljubljana, Slovenia
09.2010 Recognising Praxis, Architectural Association Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
05.2010 Opening Exhibition Of Maxxi Rome, Associate for Helena Paver Njirić’s “Moire” Exhibit, Rome, Italy
10.2009 Forest City, The 44th Zagreb Salon Of Architecture, Zagreb, Croatia
Talks
11.2020 Talking Probabilities, Spelling Alice and how she plays with LOTs, Hybrid Reality hearings qv position, Studio Zwei, UIBK, Innsbruck, Austria
11.2019 Spelling ALICE, Interaction design, ZHDK, Zürich, Switzerland
11.2019 Spelling ALICE, Terra Effluviens, Drugo More, Rijeka, Croatia
11.2019 Spelling ALICE, Sophistication Conference#3, ATTP, TU Vienna, Vienna, Austria
10.2019 Xenotheka, Dealing with the plenty in the digital age (with Maarten Delbeke), gta invites, GTA ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
10.2019 Who is ALICE, and how she plays with LOTs, Digital-Knowledge, Digital Practice, 5th ARENA Annual Conference | DR_SoM Session 7, TU Graz, Graz, Austria
05.2019 How ALICE deals with LOTs, Digital-Knowledge, ENSA Paris Malaquais, Paris, France
04.2019 How ALICE deals with LOTs, 2019 ETH-SEU PhD workshop and Forum, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
03.2019 How ALICE deals with LOTs, Common Ground, Liga, Mexico City, Mexico
12.2018 XENOTHEKA, or how ALICE deals with LOTs, Digital Architectonics, CAAD, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
11.2018 XENOTHEKA, or how ALICE deals with LOTs, Gegenwartsarchitektur, ATTP, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
05.2018 Pixels, Voxels, and Atom Letters, Bartlett Plexus Paris #5, Area, Paris, France
11.2017 Void, Brands, Characters or How to Deal with LOTs, Institute of Architecture and Media, TU Graz, Graz, Austria
10.2017 Big Data: Chronicles of the Present (with Diana Alvarez Marin), Gegenwartsarchitektur, ATTP, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
08.2017 Void or How to Deal with a LOT, Kulturfolger, Zürich, Switzerland
12.2016 A Play of Books – Computational Object in a World of Data, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
11.2016 A Quantum City (with Diana Alvarez Marin), Recombinant City, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
11.2016 A Quantum City (with Diana Alvarez Marin), Act of resistance series, OSA, Academy of Architecture, Mendrisio, Switzerland
05.2016 A Play of Books – Computational Object in a World of Data, ITA lunch Talk, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
04.2016 Generic Ground – A Few Objects and their many Others, MAS Urban Design, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
10.2015 Generic Ground – A Few Objects and their many Others, Computational Object, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
08.2015 Kilo Dialogues: A Quantum City Book Launch (with Diana Alvarez Marin), Kilo Lounge, Singapore
05.2015 Abstract Object in The Word of Data, COST, New Materialism, Einsiedeln, Switzerland
01.2015 How to master the Generic (with Diana Alvarez Marin), Future Cities: Research in Action, Urban Redevelopment Authority, Singapore
07.2014 A Quantum City (with Diana Alvarez Marin), Quantum City Workshop, University Of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
04.2014 Storytelling (with Luka Vlahovic), OFF AF, University of Architecture, Zagreb, Croatia
07.2013 A Quantum City (with Diana Alvarez Marin), Lunch Talk, Value Lab Asia, Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore
09.2010 Context (with Luka Vlahovic), Architectural Symposium – Recognising Praxis, Architectural Association Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
Publications by Miro
Roman, Miro, and Diana Alvarez-Marin. 2020. “Being a ‘Brand.’” In Atlas of Digital Architecture: Terminology, Concepts, Methods, Tools, Examples, Phenomena, edited by Urs Hirschberg, Ludger Hovestadt, and Oliver Fritz. Boston: Birkhauser Architecture.
Roman, Miro. 2020. “A Letter to a Character.” In Architecture and Naturing Affairs: Media and Architectonic Concepts, edited by Mihye An, Ludger Hovestadt, and Vera Bühlmann. Birkhäuser. https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/576169.
Roman, Miro. 2020. “A Lobster Quadrille by Alice_ch3n81.” In Architecture and Naturing Affairs: Media and Architectonic Concepts, edited by Mihye An, Ludger Hovestadt, and Vera Bühlmann. Birkhäuser. https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/576169.
Roman, Miro, Artai Sánchez, Blanka Dominika Major, Fabienne Girsberger, and Noé Lafranchi 2020. “A Conversation with Alice_ch3n81 Trans Magazine and Miro Roman.” In Trans Magazine, edited by Artai Sánchez, Blanka Dominika Major, Fabienne Girsberger, and Noé Lafranchi. gta Verlag.
Roman, Miro. 2019. “Play Among Books: A Symposium on Architecture and Information Spelled in Atom Letters.” Doctoral Thesis, ETH Zurich. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000358286.
Roman, Miro. 2019. “IV. VOIDS, BRANDS, CHARACTERS, AND HOW TO DEAL WITH LOTS.” In Ghosts of TransparencyShadows Cast and Shadows Cast Out. Vol. 13. Berlin, Basel: Birkhäuser. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035619171-005.
Roman, Miro 2016. ‘Abstract Object in the World of Data – A Play of Books – Symbolicity of Information as Potential for Architectural Articulation’, in eCAADe 2016: Complexity & Simplicity – Proceedings of the 34th eCAADe Conference – Volume 2, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, 22-26 August 2016, pp. 287-296
Alvarez, Diana and Miro Roman 2015. ‘A Quantum City: Mastering the Generic’, Reflection on New Urbanization and Sustainability, Landscape Architecture Frontiers No.5 Volume 3: 99-109.
Tomljanovic, Petra and Miro Roman 2015. ‘From Singapore With Love’, Oris magazine 95: 148-157.
Hovestadt, Ludger, Vera Bühlmann, Diana Alvarez, Miro Roman and Michael Sebastian 2015. A Quantum City, Applied Virtuality Book Series. Basel: Birkhäuser.
Roman, Miro 2015. ‘Information, Data, Lists, Indexes, Pixels – Simbolicity of Data as a Potential for Articulation’, FCL Magazine (No3): 56–63.
Alvarez, Diana and Miro Roman 2014. ‘A Quantum City, or How to Master the Generic’, in 102nd ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, Globalizing Architecture/ Flows and Disruptions.
Roman, Miro 2014. ‘Four Chairs and All the Others – Eigenchair’, in Eigenarchitecture, eds. Ludger Hovestadt and Vera Bühlmann, 10–25. Birkhauser Architecture.
Roman, Miro 2013. ‘Four Chairs and All the Others – Eigenchair’, in eCAADe 2013: Computation and Performance – Proceedings of the 31st eCAADe Conference – Volume 2, eCAADe, 405–415, Delft, The Netherlands.
Publications on Miro
Komazlić, Antonija (2014). ‘Through the Looking Glass’, Oris magazine 89: 240 – 249.
Hržić, Marjan (2012). ‘Hvidra Memorial, Dubrovnik Pacemaker’, in Expanding the Horizon: Croatian Urbanism 1991-2011, 174, 175, 228, 229. Croatian Architects Association.
Awarded Architectural Competitions
11.2019 Studiolo for Alice (with Luka Piskorec, Petra Tomljanović), Second round finalist for 2020 Croatian pavilion for Venice Biennale
04.2016 Spectral Monument (with Luka Vlahović, Petra Tomljanović), Honourable mention, Zagreb, Croatia
12.2011 Europan 11 Dubrovnik Pacemaker (with Josip Mičetić, Luka Vlahović), Honourable Mention, Dubrovnik, Croatia
01.2011 University Campus Borongaj (with Jelena Botteri, Helena Paver Njirić, Hrvoje Sedlić – Hpnj+), Honorable Mention Zagreb, Croatia
12.2010 Urban Plan For Development of Housing in Rujevica (with Jelena Botteri, Helena Paver Njirić, Yosuke Ozaki, Hrvoje Sedlić – Hpnj+), Honorable Mention, Rijeka, Croatia
03.2010 Epk Drava 2012 – Embankment of the River Drava (with Jelena Botteri, Helena Paver Njirić – Hpnj+), 2nd Prize, Maribor, Slovenia
10.2009 Regulation of Hermann Bolle’s Alley (with Iva Baljkas, Josip Mičetić Luka Vlahović), 2nd Prize, Zagreb, Croatia
09.2009 Hvidra Memorial (with Iva Baljkas, Luka Vlahović), 1st Prize, Zagreb, Croatia
05.2008 City Park Špansko (with Erna Pajnić, Luka Vlahović), Honorable Mention, Zagreb, Croatia
12.2007 Extension of Ksaver Šandor Gjalski School, Zagreb, Croatia, (with Luka Vlahović), Honorable Mention
09.2007 City Cemetery´s Extension Complex on Mirogoj (with Iskra Kirin, Josip Mičetić, Luka Vlahović), Honourable Mention, Zagreb, Croatia
04.2006 Ivanja Reka School (with Hrvoje Čop, Ksenija Jurčić Diminić, Barbara Kalaš, Vinko Penezić, Krešimir Rogina – Penezić & Rogina Architects), Honourable Mention, Zagreb, Croatia
07.2004 Gračani-Dolje Urban Plan (with Iva Baljkas, Hrvoje Čop, Luka Vlahović), Honourable Mention, Zagreb, Croatia
12.2003 Main Square Čakovec (with Iva Baljkas, Marko Salopek), 3rd Prize, Čakovec, Croatia