Aida Murtić

Senior Assistant
Housing.Yu (ERC-CoG br. 101171985)
E. amurtic / ipu.hr
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Biography

Aida Murtić is an architect and art historian, and a member of the research team of the ERC project Housing.Yu – Right to Housing: the Production of Spaces of Everyday Life in Yugoslavia (1945–1991).

She received her PhD in art history from Heidelberg University, where her dissertation on processes of urban transformation and heritage preservation in the historical city centre of Sarajevo (Čaršija) was awarded the August Grisebach Dissertation Prize by the Institute for European Art History (IEK). She also holds a joint MSc in urban development from TU Darmstadt and University Grenoble Alpes, as well as a diploma degree in architecture from the University of Sarajevo.

Her doctoral research was carried out with the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the research program of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS). She was a resident doctoral fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz. She was also a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Modern Art and Theory (CMAT) at Masaryk University.

As an architect, she worked on numerous projects of post-war reconstruction of architectural heritage in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is a member of the ICOMOS National Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina and formerly its Secretary General.

Her research spans the social history of architecture, theories and methods of heritage preservation, and the politics of memory.