Jana Revedin Prof. DI Dr. Ing., Architect was born in Constance, Germany in 1965 and trained as a cabinetmaker. She studied architecture in Buenos Aires, Princeton and at Milan Polytechnic, where she gained her diploma in 1991 and wrote a thesis entitled The Concept of Open Space in the Social Architecture of the German Avant-Garde.
From 1991 she taught as Aldo Rossi’s assistant at the IUAV Venice, where she qualified as a teacher of architecture and was awarded a PhD for her dissertation: Monument and Modernity: Hallenbauten as the Elements of Construction of the democratic town.
Her special interest is the contemporary urban renewal with a view to meeting the needs of society in Europe as much as in developing countries, the study of participative interventions in unplanned settlements – and the translation of detailed local craftsmanship into architecture.
She is full professor for Architecture and Design at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden and scientific advisor of UNESCO (Milena Mercouri Urban Landscape Prize, Save New Gourna Committee, Historic Urban Landscape Committee). Her research lines are supported by the Swedish FORMAS Agency.
In 2005 she was appointed curator of the biennial gau:di European Student Competition in Sustainable Architecture (EU Culture 2000) that she leads up to present.
In 2006 she created the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture as a means of federating architects from all corners of the globe who are working towards a more sustainable social and cultural content of architecture. The annual Award is put under the patronage of UNESCO.
In 2009 she founded the LOCUS Foundation to guarantee the Awards scientific independence and to federate the winners in participative urban renewal projects. Since 2011 LOCUS is partner of the EU Research program Underconstructions: Innovative Architecture Practice in Europe led by EFAP.

In 1996 Jana Revedin founded her own architectural practice, specialized in urban renewal, sustainable and emergency architecture through participative processes.