Dr Mila Pucar, Arch.
e-mail: ljpucar@ptt.yu

Biography

Mila Dj. Pucar (born Miljanic) was awarded her B.A.E. and M.Sc. degrees at the Faculty of Architecture and the Centre for Multidisciplinary studies, University of Belgrade. Following her architectural practice from 1971 till 1975 in the designing bureau in Banja Luka, she was employed as researcher in the Institute for Management and Planning Systems in Belgrade.  From 1980 when she joined as researcher the Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts she was an author and co-author of numerous monographs and papers submitted at international conferences and published in magazines. Since 1994 she is also employed as researcher on the part-time basis in the Institute for Architecture and Town Planning of Serbia.

Her work conducted through numerous R&D projects, studies and programs was so far primarily in the fields of industrial housing construction, functional and programming concept of educational institutions, and rational use of energy in dwellings and human settlements. Modular construction studies included development and planning of modular passenger ships.

As a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade from 1985 to 1988 she taught the subject " Structures III" and since 1990 the subject "Design of Bioclimatic Architecture".

She worked as a member of the Yugoslav team engaged in the UNDP ECE Project "Energy Efficient Design in Building and Use of Solar Energy" and as co-ordinator of the work group for the preparation of Solar Handbook.

Her PhD thesis – "Parameters of Planning and Designning of Glass-Covered (-Enveloped) Space as an Element of Bioclimatic Architecture" defended in May 1999 at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade. She is a holder of the patent: "Greenhouse with a mobile reflecting wall"

She was a member of the Executive Board of the Yugoslav Society for Solar Energy. At present she is a member of the Board for Energy Uses of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.