Mia Roth-Čerina
Full Professor faculty of Architecture
University of Zagreb
Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architectural Design
EAAE Vice-president
Mia Roth-Čerina is a Croatian architect and full professor at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb, where she attained her diploma in 2000 and doctoral degree in 2015. Her primary interests in both professional, teaching and research practices are spaces serving the public, particularly educational buildings.
Practicing since 1999 in partnership with Tonči Čerina, winning competitions and receiving national as well as international awards. In 2023 they represented Croatia at the 18th Venice architecture biennale. She has mentored work at bachelor and master level studios, doctoral studies, and has a particular interest in the extracurricular segment of teacher/student engagement, collaborating on workshops with the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb, Zagreb School of Design, UNICEF, AEDES Metropolitan Laboratory in Berlin, Plečnik’s House and Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana, Demanio Marittimo KM278 in Senigallia, and other associations and organizations. She is engaged in initiatives aimed at promoting various levels of architectural education – from early built environment education to exploring new modalities in higher architectural education.
As an author and co-author, she has written and published articles, studies, textbooks and architecture reviews, currently a member of the editorial and scientific boards of the journals Prostor, STOA, Acta Architectonica et Urbanistica, and Serbian Architectural Journal, edited books and been a reviewer for scientific and professional articles, books and conferences. She has served as jury member of architectural and student competitions, notably RIBA Dissertation Medal, UIA Golden Cubes awards, Plečnik’s awards and the Bucharest Anual. From 2010-2017 she served as Croatian delegate in the international UIA working group Architecture & Children. From 2016 to 2024 she was the vice-dean of international relations and art at her Faculty, during which time she has extensively worked on involving the school in the pinnacle of relevant architectural education discussions such as those carried out within the EAAE, and initiated collaborations with European schools resulting in workshops, parallel studios and lectures.
She is an active member of EAAE, first joining the Education Academy, later as its council member and since 2024 as vice-president. In 2019, she co-hosted the annual EAAE conference titled ‘The Hidden School’, aimed at exploring the tacit layers of architectural education. Recently she has been active in the activities related to the New European Bauhaus and is a member of the New European Bauhaus goes South initiative. She teaches architectural design and heads the Institute for Research, Development and Innovation at her Faculty.
