Ana Sopina
PhD, senior research and teaching assistant
Teaching activity
Biography
Ana Sopina is a graduate architect with a doctorate in technical sciences, in the field of spatial planning and landscape architecture. She is currently a senior assistant at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Architecture, within the Department of Urban Planning, Spatial Planning, and Landscape Architecture.
Her doctoral dissertation, Spatial Planning Criteria for Relation Enhancement between Urban and Natural Landscape of the East Adriatic Coast, was written in English under the supervision of Prof. Bojana Bojanić Obad Šćitaroci, PhD, and defended in 2024.
Since 2017 she has been employed as an assistant, and from 2024 is employed as a senior assistant at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb. She participates in teaching undergraduate workshop courses at the Department of Urban Planning, Spatial Planning, and Landscape Architecture. Since 2018, she has also been lecturing at the Postgraduate Specialist Study: Architecture and Urban Planning - Spatial Planning Cycle: Strategic Planning and Sustainable Development. Additionally, she has participated in conducting the course Heritage of Landscape Architecture (course leader: Assoc. Prof. M. Rukavina, PhD) in the Undergraduate Study of Urban Forestry, Nature Conservation, and Environmental Protection, at the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, University of Zagreb. Since 2020 she has been involved in teaching the elective course Urban Ecology (course leaders: Assoc. Prof. M. Sertić Perić, PhD; Asst. Tamara Zaninović, PhD) at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology.
In 2019 and 2023, she developed her teaching and training abroad at the University of Camerino, School of Architecture and Design, under the supervision of Prof. Massimo Sargolini. During her academic development abroad, she participated in teaching both the Master in Architecture (2019 and 2024) and the Master Second Level in INTERNAL AREAS (2023 and 2024).
She has contributed to two (2) national research projects Urban and Landscape Heritage of Croatia as a part of the European Culture and HERU - Heritage Urbanism, both led by Prof. Mladen Obad Šćitaroci, PhD. She has also collaborated on several international research projects with the University of Camerino, including two EU Horizon-funded projects (SMART-U-GREEN, BETTER Life), one integrated LIFE project (LIFE IMAGINE UMBRIA), and one INTERREG Italy – Croatia project (BOOST5). Currently, she is involved in the Interreg Euro-MED project Bauhaus4Med (Croatian team led by Prof. Zoran Veršić, PhD), the Erasmus+ project SUNRISE (Croatian team led by asst. prod. Tamara Zaninović, PhD), and the university research Urbanscape Emanation (led by prof. Bojana Bojanić Obad Šćitaroci, PhD until 2023 and now led by asst. prof. Tamara Zaninović).
Her scientific research focuses on the urban and natural landscape relation, urban development, public landscape places, and the reading of landscape. Her work particularly examines Mediterranean coastal and mountain areas as well as the urbanscape of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. She regularly publishes scientific articles, chapters in scientific books, and papers in international conferences. She has presented her work at numerous international and national conferences and colloquia (Barcelona, Istanbul, Zagreb, Pescara, Šibenik, Rome, Sarajevo, Livorno, L’Aquila, Cagliari, Kharkiv).
In her professional work, she contributed to spatial and urban planning projects and studies as well as landscape architecture projects, architectural projects of protected cultural heritage, and architectural projects. She also integrates her experience and passion for photography and hiking into her scientific research, professional work, and teaching in the fields of urban and spatial planning, landscape architecture, and architecture.
Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, University of Zagreb, Studies of Urban Forestry, Nature Conservation and Environmental Protection - Undergraduate, course Heritage of Landscape Architecture, leader: assoc. prof. Marko Rukavina, PhD; associate: sen. asst. Ana Sopina, PhD
Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Graduate Study, course Urban Ecology, leaders: assoc. prof. Mirela Sertić Perić, asst. prof. Tamara Zaninović PhD; associates: assoc. prof. Ivana Herceg Bulić PhD; Vesna Gulin Beljak, PhD; sen. asst. Ana Sopina, PhD
Her doctoral dissertation, Spatial Planning Criteria for Relation Enhancement between Urban and Natural Landscape of the East Adriatic Coast, was written in English under the supervision of Prof. Bojana Bojanić Obad Šćitaroci, PhD, and defended in 2024.
Since 2017 she has been employed as an assistant, and from 2024 is employed as a senior assistant at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb. She participates in teaching undergraduate workshop courses at the Department of Urban Planning, Spatial Planning, and Landscape Architecture. Since 2018, she has also been lecturing at the Postgraduate Specialist Study: Architecture and Urban Planning - Spatial Planning Cycle: Strategic Planning and Sustainable Development. Additionally, she has participated in conducting the course Heritage of Landscape Architecture (course leader: Assoc. Prof. M. Rukavina, PhD) in the Undergraduate Study of Urban Forestry, Nature Conservation, and Environmental Protection, at the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, University of Zagreb. Since 2020 she has been involved in teaching the elective course Urban Ecology (course leaders: Assoc. Prof. M. Sertić Perić, PhD; Asst. Tamara Zaninović, PhD) at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology.
In 2019 and 2023, she developed her teaching and training abroad at the University of Camerino, School of Architecture and Design, under the supervision of Prof. Massimo Sargolini. During her academic development abroad, she participated in teaching both the Master in Architecture (2019 and 2024) and the Master Second Level in INTERNAL AREAS (2023 and 2024).
She has contributed to two (2) national research projects Urban and Landscape Heritage of Croatia as a part of the European Culture and HERU - Heritage Urbanism, both led by Prof. Mladen Obad Šćitaroci, PhD. She has also collaborated on several international research projects with the University of Camerino, including two EU Horizon-funded projects (SMART-U-GREEN, BETTER Life), one integrated LIFE project (LIFE IMAGINE UMBRIA), and one INTERREG Italy – Croatia project (BOOST5). Currently, she is involved in the Interreg Euro-MED project Bauhaus4Med (Croatian team led by Prof. Zoran Veršić, PhD), the Erasmus+ project SUNRISE (Croatian team led by asst. prod. Tamara Zaninović, PhD), and the university research Urbanscape Emanation (led by prof. Bojana Bojanić Obad Šćitaroci, PhD until 2023 and now led by asst. prof. Tamara Zaninović).
Her scientific research focuses on the urban and natural landscape relation, urban development, public landscape places, and the reading of landscape. Her work particularly examines Mediterranean coastal and mountain areas as well as the urbanscape of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. She regularly publishes scientific articles, chapters in scientific books, and papers in international conferences. She has presented her work at numerous international and national conferences and colloquia (Barcelona, Istanbul, Zagreb, Pescara, Šibenik, Rome, Sarajevo, Livorno, L’Aquila, Cagliari, Kharkiv).
In her professional work, she contributed to spatial and urban planning projects and studies as well as landscape architecture projects, architectural projects of protected cultural heritage, and architectural projects. She also integrates her experience and passion for photography and hiking into her scientific research, professional work, and teaching in the fields of urban and spatial planning, landscape architecture, and architecture.
Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, University of Zagreb, Studies of Urban Forestry, Nature Conservation and Environmental Protection - Undergraduate, course Heritage of Landscape Architecture, leader: assoc. prof. Marko Rukavina, PhD; associate: sen. asst. Ana Sopina, PhD
Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Graduate Study, course Urban Ecology, leaders: assoc. prof. Mirela Sertić Perić, asst. prof. Tamara Zaninović PhD; associates: assoc. prof. Ivana Herceg Bulić PhD; Vesna Gulin Beljak, PhD; sen. asst. Ana Sopina, PhD
‘What does the word Architecture intend to mean? At first, limiting it to the art of building could seem passive and, in an even more restricted way, concern just the house construction. But Architecture is almost implicitly everything which is structure and representation, from the rocks, the skeleton, from the structure of the atom up to the appearance of the spheres that are part of the planetary system. The man made efforts, using the elements that nature gave him, in order to modify and reorganize this same nature, created architectures that, by improving themselves, spread through the world, giving origin to new architectures, from the rock to the interplanetary satellite, from the cave to the sky-scraper, from the pendulous to the cathedral.“
Lina Bo Bardi, Contribuição Propedêutica ao Ensino da Teoria da Arquitetura, 1957.’
