Ana Dana Beroš is an independent architect, curator, editor, educator and exhibition designer, graduated magna cum laude from the Zagreb Faculty of Architecture, with international professional experience. Co-founder of non-profit group ARCHIsquad, a division for architecture with conscience, and project coordinator of its educational programmes: 'Out of Focus: Architecture of Giving' (series of lectures with Jean-Philippe Vassal, Rural Studio, Diebedo Francis Kere) and '*urgentArchitecture', open architecture advisory centres for citizens. Winner of Merit Award at Shinkenchiku competition in Japan, awarded by Jun Aoki in 2009. One of the initiators and board members of THINK SPACE programme of conceptual architectural competitions (with jurors Shohei Shigematsu (OMA), Teddy Cruz, R&Sie(n), Hrvoje Njiric, Zaha Hadid (ZHA), Alejandro Zaera Polo (AZPA), Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Pedro Gadanho (MoMA) and Keller Easterling) and co-curator of its exhibition 'Competitive Hypothesis' at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, in 2013. Author of many exhibition designs, last 'Zero Point of Meaning' being displayed at Camera Austria, Kunsthaus in Graz. Editor of Oris magazine (interviews with Junya Ishigami, together with Pritzker laureates Kazuyo Sejima of SAANA, Edouardo Souto de Moura and Peter Zumthor). Recently, she been recognized as an early-career architect who has demonstrated exceptional design talent and shows promise for continued creative work - and selected among 7 finalists for the Wheelwright Prize - a $100,000 grant awarded by Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design GSD in 2014.
Furthermore, her research project Intermundia, part of ‘Monditalia’ exhibition, section of Rem Koolhaas' 'Fundamentals' received Special Mention at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition organized by la Biennale di Venezia, in June, 2014.