Srđan Jovanović Weiss Prior to his graduation at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade in 1995 in the studio of Professor Lojanica, he was admitted to Harvard University where he worked with mentors such as: Rem Koolhaas, Jacques Herzog and Richard Gluckman. As a result, his researches have been published in Koolhas’s seminal book: Harvard Guide to Shopping and his project ideas were incorporated in Herzog’s architecture for the building of Dominus Vinary built in California. At the invitation of Robert Wilson he moves to New York and builds the complex Picasso Museum in the heart of the Jewish quarter in Malaga, south Spain. After winning first place, among 1,500 architects, at the competition for the building of Mies van der Rohe Foundation, in 1998 in Barselona, he founds his own office with New Yourk headquarters: The NAO. He carries out projects and designs for scenography, furniture, interiour design, art exhibitions and architecture in New York, including: The Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art, Thread Waxing Space, Participant Inc., DanSpace, St. Marks Church, 42 nd Street, The Duke Theatre and Columbia University. He has presented his ideas at prestigeous institutions in Tokyo, New York, Filadelphia, Sao Paolo, Roterdam, Berlin, Stutgart, Bordaux, Belgrade and Novi Sad. He teaches architecture and political design at the University of Pensilvania in Filadelphia. Srđan Vajs’s first book titled Almost Normal Almost Arhitecture, will be published in the spring of 2006 in the edition of Edition Solitude, Akademie Solitude Stuttgart. www.thenao.net