Amila Smajlović

Amila Smajlović studied architecture at the Graz University of Technology (TU Graz). During her studies, she worked as a study and project assistant in academic teaching and research. For her work "A Right to Housing" (2017, with Arch DI Michael Pleschberger), she received an honorable mention as part of the Herbert Eichholzer Architecture Promotion Award from the City of Graz. Based on the topic of social and functional diversity and justice in the city, she wrote her master’s thesis "Equilibrium: On Distance and Proximity in the City” and was awarded the Tschom Housing Prize at the GAD Awards 2021. She gained several years of practical experience focusing on urban and public space planning as well as housing projects in architectural offices in Graz and Vienna. From June 2024 to January 2025, she worked as a university assistant in teaching and research at the Research Department for Local Planning at the TU Wien, where she is writing her dissertation with a focus on the development of rural areas. Since February 2025, she has been working at the Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government in the field of spatial planning and coordinates topics in strategic and supra-local spatial planning, in particular with regard to spatial development along the Koralmbahn.