Miloš Kostić, Ph.D. (1990) is an architect and researcher working across architectural design, spatial practice, and visual media. He holds a PhD from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, where he worked as a teaching assistant and researcher from 2016 to 2022. His work combines architectural practice, research, and media-based investigations through independent and collaborative projects, exhibitions, and interdisciplinary initiatives across Serbia and Germany.
His research focuses on the transformative potential of urban environments through media-based research methodologies, with particular interest in modernist and post-war heritage, tectonic culture, and critical spatial analysis. He explores the relationship between architecture, representation, and contemporary urban conditions, developing a practice positioned between architectural research and critical visual inquiry.
His work has been recognized in the fields of education, photography, visual research, and architectural design. His awards include the HERSUS Award for Innovative Educators (2023), distinctions for the CHALLENGES OF COVID-19 Workshop (2020) and the Arsenal – Industrial Heritage media project (2022), First Prize at the Tirana Forum for architectural photography (2019), and a Special Recognition at the Belgrade Salon of Architecture (2023). In architectural design, he has received multiple awards, including recognitions for the Budva Horizon promenade (2023) and the Conference Center in Trebinje (2024), as well as earlier First Prizes for public space projects in Novi Sad and Kragujevac (2018). His photographic project Klimaparallelen was exhibited in Munich in 2024. Since 2022, he has been based in Munich, continuing his professional, artistic, and research practice. He is also one of the founders of _petougao_, a collective focused on spatial practice and interdisciplinary research across the Balkans.
Publications:
Kostić, M. Drawing the Erased: Speculative Detailing in Modernist Heritage Interpretation. critic|all grapho-
logics: VI International Conference on Architecture Design & Criticism, pp. 310–319, 978-84-09-81684-2,
2026.
Kostić, M. (2022). Post-tectonic Translations: Decoding the Poetics of Architectural Detail. SAJ – Serbian Architectural Journal, 12, 85–101.
Milovanović, A., Kostić, M. et al. (2020). Transferring COVID-19 Challenges into Learning Potentials: Online Workshops in Architectural Education. Sustainability, 12(17), 7024.
Milovanović A., Pešić M., Kostić M., Đorđevic A., Bugarski J., Zorić A., Todorović D., Josifovski A. & Sokolović N. (2020). Architettura dell’emergenza riveduta: Sfide nella ricerca, nella pratica e nell’educazione (Emergency architecture revised: Challenges in research, practice and education). A&A è una rivista di architettura (con testi in italiano e in inglese), 47: 72-79. DiAP Dipartimento di Architettura e Progetto - Sapienza Università di Roma.
Zorić, A., Kostić, M. (2018). Spaces of Peace: Recreation as a Method for Transforming Military Infrastructure. FILUM International Scientific Conference, pp. 267–278.
Kostić, M. (2018). Semiotics of the Architectural Detail: Between Rationalisation and Representation. SAJ – Serbian Architectural Journal, 10, 59–70.
Kostić, M., Milenković, V. (2017). Contemporary Detail in the Zoom-In/Zoom-Out Technique: God and Scale. Facta Universitatis – Architecture and Civil Engineering, 15, 307–316.
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International Conferences and Symposia:
Kostić, M. (2026). Loss is More: Detailing towards a Media-Based Atlas of Modernist Heritage
Fragmentation. CA2RE Conference: Trajectories, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover.
Kostić, M. (2024). Architectural Detail Between Discursive Images and Networks. CA²RE Conference: Dispositions, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, November 7-9, 2024, Belgrade.
Kostić, M. (2023). What is the Secret of the Architectural Detail? Symposium Design-Related Research, Technical University of Munich (TUM), November 10-11, 2023.
Rašković, I., Kostić, M., Pašić, D. (2022). Details that make the concept: Dobrović in Herceg Novi, Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference 125 Years of the Birth of Architect Nikola Dobrović (1897–2022), Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU), 17 November 2022
Miloš Kostić, Ana Zorić, Mobilizing The Image: Ideological narrative in the design of the Sava center. ХХI International Congres of Aesthetics ICA 2019 – Possible Worlds оf Contemporary Aesthetics: Aesthetics Between History, Geography And Media. Belgrade, Serbia, pp. 705, ISBN: 978-86-7924-223-5, 2019.
Miloš Kostić, Functional excess: Ornamentation in the post-fordist production and projection of architecture, On Architecture: Challenges in architecture, urban design and art, 978-86-89111-21-7, Beograd, 7. - 8. Jun, 2019.
Miloš Kostić, Ana Zorić, Spaces of Peace - Recreation as a Method of Program Transformation of Military Infrastructure, XIII International Scientific Conference FILUM, Serbian Language, Literature, Art, , pp. 267 - 278, 978-86-80796-43-7, 2018.
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Design Awards & Recognitions:
HONORABLE MENTION (2025)
Competition for the program and spatial concept for the urban and landscape revitalization of the area between Blagoja Parovića, Kneza Višeslava, Miloja Zakića and Vladimira Rolovića Streets, Čukarica, Belgrade.
Authors: Dr. Aleksandra Đorđević, Dr. Miloš Kostić, Dr. Aleksandra Milovanović, Dr. Ana Zorić, Dr. Mladen Pešić.
THIRD PRIZE (2024)
International competition for the Conference Center in Trebinje.
Authors: Dr. Aleksandra Đorđević, Dr. Miloš Kostić, Dr. Aleksandra Milovanović, Dr. Ana Zorić, Dr. Mladen Pešić.
THIRD PRIZE (2023)
Competition for the conceptual urban-architectural solution for the promenade in the “Budvanska Školjka” area, Budva–Bečići Promenade, Phase 1.
Authors: Dr. Aleksandra Đorđević, Dr. Aleksandra Milovanović, Dr. Ana Zorić, Dr. Miloš Kostić, Dr. Mladen Pešić, M.Arch. Milorad Pejanović. Consultant: AAdipl. MSc. ARB, MRTPI Ivor Samuels. 3D Model: Arch. Bogdan Đokić.
FIRST PRIZE (2019)
Competition for the design of the old town complex “Borino Vranje,” Vranje, Serbia.
Authors: A. Đorđević, M. Kostić, J. Basta, A. Zorić, N. Arsić, J. Bugarski.
FIRST PRIZE (2018)
Urban-architectural competition “Nova mesta,” Novi Sad, Serbia.
Authors: M. Kostić, A. Zorić, D. Tilinger, D. Pašić.
FIRST PRIZE (2018)
Architectural competition for the design of small public spaces in Kragujevac, within “Days of Architecture.”
Authors: A. Zorić, M. Kostić, D. Tillinger, J. Vidaković.
SHORTLISTED PROJECT (2020)
Competition for the exhibition design representing Serbia at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
Project: “Future Stock,” Team 10:90 (A. Đorđević, A. Zorić, A. Josifovski, A. Dubljević, B. Jerković-Babović, D. Todorović, D. Sovilj, M. Kostić, J. Basta, J. Bugarski).
SHORTLISTED PROJECT (2016)
Competition for the exhibition design representing Serbia at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
Project: “Heroic: Confront!”, with M. Morošan and N. Halilović.
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Education & Exhibition Awards:
FIRST PRIZE (2023)
Budva Horizon – 3rd Prize in the competition for the conceptual urban-architectural solution for the promenade in the “Budvanska Školjka” area, Budva–Bečići promenade.
Awarded at the 32nd International Urbanism Salon, Niš, November 8, 2023, Science and Technology Park Niš.
SPECIAL RECOGNITION (2022)
Arsenal – Industrial Heritage
Authors: I. Rašković, R. Čolić, J. Atanasijević, I. Pavlović, S. Drvenica, V. Papić, M. Kostić, J. Bugarski.
Award in the category: Digital Techniques, Design and Production in Urbanism and Architecture – Media Presentation of Urbanism and Architecture,
31st International Urbanism Salon, Čačak, November 8–15, 2022.
HONORABLE MENTION (2023)
M. Kostić, Dobrović in Detail, 45th Salon of Architecture – Salon of Dialogue, March 28 – April 29, 2023.
FIRST PRIZE (2019)
M. Kostić, First prize in the international competition for best architectural photography on the topic “Modernization and Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities in Architecture, Urbanism, Cultural Heritage”,
for the work Hochbau, Tirana, Albania, 2019.
SPECIAL RECOGNITION (2018)
A. Zorić, M. Kostić, A. Đorđević, J. Radosavljević, J. Bugarski, D. Đorđević.
Special recognition in the category “Competitions” for the project of the City Gallery on Kosančićev Venac.
21st Salon of Architecture, Novi Sad, 2018.
SPECIAL RECOGNITION (2020)
A. Đorđević, M. Kostić, J. Basta, A. Zorić, N. Arsić, J. Bugarski.
Special recognition in the category “Competitions” for the project Old Town Complex “Borino Vranje”.
22nd Salon of Architecture, Novi Sad, 2020.
SPECIAL RECOGNITION (2020)
A. Đorđević, J. Bugarski, M. Pešić, A. Zorić, M. Kostić, D. Todorović, A. Josifovski, A. Milovanović & N. Sokolović.
CHALLENGES OF COVID-19 (Workshop), Challenges in Architecture, Urban Design and Art, December 4–14, 2020.
Exhibition: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Gallery of Science and Technology.
Special mention in the category: The Future – modeling future architecture and design with environmental and social implications.