Born in Constance (Germany), Jana Revedin graduated as an architect from the Politecnico of Milan and is a doctor of architecture and urban planning of IUAV University in Venice with the authorisation to direct research. A full professor at the École spéciale d’architecture in Paris, she is a member of the LAURE research laboratory „Environment, city, society“ (CNRS) and the UNESCO delegate to the Education and Research Commission of the UIA.
Between 2005 and 2012 she directed the European student competition for sustainable architecture gau:di. In 2006 she created the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, giving birth to the Global Award Community, a global collective of scientific and professional exchange and experimentation. Her theory of „radicant design“ proposes the collective transformation of the contemporary city on the basis of an „open-work“ morphology of participative processes.

Lehrtätigkeit

Jana Revedin is a full professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Ecole spéciale d´Architecture Paris (France).
She is member of the LAURE research laboratory „Environment, city, society“ (CNRS) and the UNESCO delegate to the Education and Research Commission of the UIA

Mitgliedschaften

ArchIng Austria
LAURE ENSA Lyon
Global Award for Sustainable Architecture Community (Founding President)
Ordre des Arts et Lettres (Chevalier)
UNESCO UIA Education and Research Commission (UNESCO Delegate)
Board of Directors ENSAP Bordeaux
Forschungsinitiative Zukunft Bau (BBSR) Bonn (Design-Peer Advisor)

Publikationen

Architecture Theory
• Jana Revedin, „L’Architecte et l’existant: Construire avec ce qui est déjà là“, with a foreword by Charles Landry, Gallimard, collection Manifesto, Paris 2022
• Marie-Hélène Contal, Jana Revedin, „Sustainable Design IX: Towards a New Ethics for Architecture and the City“, Gallimard Editions Alternatives, Paris 2021
• Marie-Hélène Contal, Jana Revedin, „Sustainable Design VIII: Towards a New Ethics for Architecture and the City“, Gallimard Editions Alternatives, Paris 2020
• Marie-Hélène Contal, Jana Revedin, „Sustainable Design VII: Towards a New Ethics for Architecture and the City“, Gallimard Editions Alternatives, Paris 2019
• Jana Revedin, “Construire avec l ́immatériel: Temps, usages, communauté, droit, climat ... Nouvelles ressources pour l ́architecture”, with a foreword by Pascal Nicolas Le Strat, Gallimard, collection Manifesto, Paris 2018
• Marie-Hélène Contal, Jana Revedin, „Sustainable Design VI: Towards a New Ethics for Architecture and the City“, Gallimard Editions Alternatives, Paris 2018
• Marie-Hélène Contal, Jana Revedin, „Sustainable Design V: Towards a New Ethics for Architecture and the City“, Gallimard Editions Alternatives, Paris 2017
• Jana Revedin, „The Living Urban Laboratory Karlskrona 2015/2016: Participatory Design for circular growth and social inclusion“, BTH, Karlskrona 2016
• Marie-Hélène Contal, Jana Revedin, „Sustainable Design IV: Towards a New Ethics for Architecture and the City“, Gallimard Editions Alternatives, Paris 2016
• Jana Revedin, „La ville rebelle: Démocratiser le projet urbain“, with a foreword by Yona Friedman and an epilogue by Christopher Alexander, Gallimard Collection Manifesto, Paris 2015
• Jana Revedin, „The Living Urban Laboratory Karlskrona 2014/2015: Participatory Design for circular growth and social inclusion“, BTH, Karlskrona 2015
• Jana Revedin, „The Radicant City: Why Sustainable Living Space grows Like Ivy“, in: „Re-enchanter le Monde: L´architecture et la ville face aux grandes transitions“, Gallimard Collection Manifesto, Paris 2014
• Marie-Hélène Contal, Jana Revedin, „Sustainable Design III: Towards a New Ethics for Architecture and the City“, with a foreword by Christopher Alexander, Gallimard Editions Alternatives, Paris 2014
• Jana Revedin, „The Living Urban Laboratory Karlskrona 2012/2013: Participatory Design for circular growth and social inclusion“, BTH, Karlskrona 2013
• Jana Revedin, „The Eleven Books on Architecture: Design Theories for Societies in Change“, BTH, Karlskrona 2013
• Jana Revedin, „Altes Handwerk in Venedig: Die Lagunenstadt neu entdeckt“, Styria, Vienna 2013
• Jana Revedin, „Architecture in the Making: The gau:di Student Competition on Sustainable Architecture 2006 - 2012“ Gallimard Editions Alternatives, Paris 2012
• Marie-Hélène Contal, Jana Revedin, „Sustainable Design II: Towards a New Ethics for Architecture and the City“, Actes Sud, Arles 2011
• Marie-Hélène Contal, Jana Revedin, “Sustainable Design I: Towards a New Ethics in Architecture and Town Planning", with a foreword by Thomas Herzog, Birkhäuser, Berlin/Bale/Boston 2009
• Jana Revedin, „Monument and Modernity: Hallenbauten as the Elements of Construction of the Democratic Town“, Doctoral Dissertation, National Library/IUAV, Rome/Venice 2000
• Jana Revedin, „Gärten in Kärnten: historische Gartenbilder“, Heyn, Klagenfurt 1996
• Domenico Luciani, Jana Revedin, „Garten, Landschaft: Wahlverwandtschaften“, Alinea, Milan 1992
• Jana Revedin, „The Concept of Open Space in the Reformatory Architecture of the German Avant-Garde“, Diploma Thesis, National Library/Milan Polytechnic University, Rome/Milan 1991

Literature
• Jana Revedin, „Flucht nach Patagonien“, Aufbau, Berlin 2021
• Jana Revedin, „Margherita“, Aufbau, Berlin 2020 (Spiegel and Presse Bestseller)
• Jana Revedin, „La Signora Bauhaus“, Neri Pozza, Mailand 2020 (Bestseller La Repubblica)
• Jana Revedin, „Jeder hier nennt mich Frau Bauhaus: Das Leben der Ise Frank“, DuMont, Cologne 2018 (Spiegel Bestseller)

Auszeichnungen

The author of prizewinning architectural and urban projects and reference works on sustainable architecture and cities and their ethical and socio-political rootedness, as embodied by the German reform movement of the Bauhaus, she won the AESOP Prize for Teaching Excellence (2013) and the Global Prize of the Urban Revitalization of Mass Housing competition of UN Habitat (2014). Appointed a Chevalier des Arts et lettres in 2014, she has also been honoured by the French Academy of Architecture with the Medal for the Direction of Doctoral Thesis of Excellence (2016) and the Prospective Medal (2017). In 2022 she will direct the International Exhibition of the Architecture and Landscape Biennale of Versailles, France.
Her bestselling biographical novel „Jeder hier nennt mich Frau Bauhaus“ (DuMont 2018) on the emancipatory influence of the journalist and writer Ise Frank, Walter Gropius’ second wife, on the Bauhaus movement has been nominated for the Grimme Prize (3Sat Documentary), the Leipzig Book Fair Award 2019 and the Walter Kempowski Prize Niedersachsen. Its Italian edition (Neri Pozza 2020) is on the Repubblica bestselling list. Her bestselling biographical novel „Margherita“ (Aufbau 2020) describes the cultural and social revival of Venice during the 1920ies and 1930ies. The third novel in this trilogy of extraordinary women from the 1920s, „Flucht nach Patagonien“ (Aufbau 2021) rediscovers the most far-sighted art patron of Parisian modernism: Eugenia Errázuriz rescues her last protégé, the Jewish architect and designer Jean-Michel Frank, from the one threatened by National Socialism Europe.

Ausstellungen, Vorträge

2006 - 2012 Curator of the European Student Competition on Sustainable Architecture at the Biennale di Venezia
2014 Curator of „Re-enchant the World“ on the work of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture winners at the Cité de l'architecture Paris
2022 Curator of the first International Exhibition „Land in Sight!“ at the Architecture and Landscape Biennale BAP! Versailles.
2022 Curator of the exposition on the work of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2022 winners at the Cité de l'Architecture Paris
Jana Revedin lectures in renown schools of architecture, Symposiums and Biennales around the world. www.revedin.com