Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss explores architecture in relation to contemporary geo-politics and specifically the role of architecture in emerging democracy. Weiss is an architect and founder of Normal Architecture Office as well as founding member of School of Missing Studies network. His books: Almost Architecture and Lost Highway Expedition Photobook explore architecture vis-à-vis emerging democratic processes taking Europe’s South East as a source model of spatial knowledge. Weiss' design experience includes collaborating with Richard Gluckman, Herzog & de Meuron Architects as well as artists Jenny Holzer, Robert Wilson and Marjetica Potrc. His design activism includes saving socialist spaces of recreation from rampant neo-liberalism with an ongoing project to preserve and adapt an existing handball stadium in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia into a youth centre. Selected by Herzog & de Meuron Architects, Weiss and NAO designed one of the houses to be built in the new city of Ordos, in Inner Mongolia, Republic of China. He is one of the authors from Harvard Guide to Shopping, edited by Koolhaas et.al. published by Taschen Gmbh. Currently Weiss is preparing a book on Architecture of Balkanization supported by Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College in London.