She was a workshop expert on the Singapore Hinterland at the 5th Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction 2016 on “Infrastructure Space”.

Milica Topalović held a research professorship at the ETH Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore (2011-15) and joined ETH Zurich in 2006 as head of research at Studio Basel Contemporary City Institute. Her research and teaching focus on territorial urbanization, particularly on the relations between cities and their hinterlands – at the intersection between architecture and urban research.

She graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade, Serbia and received a Masters degree from the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2001) with a thesis on Belgrade’s post-socialist urban transformation. 

Milica Topalović has worked on projects at different spatial scales and within visual media since 2000. She collaborated on urban design/planning competitions and studies with offices in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland.

She is author/editor of Belgrade – Formal/Informal: A Study on Urban Transformation (Scheidegger & Spiess, 2012), Architecture of Territory – Hinterland: Singapore, Johor, Riau (ETH Zurich D-ARCH, 2013), and The Inevitable Specificity of Cities (Lars Müller, 2014).