She graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade and received a Master’s degree from the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. Since 2006, she has been a head of research at ETH Studio Basel, Contemporary City Institute where she has taught urban research studios on cities and regions such as Belgrade, Havana, Hong Kong and the Nile Valley. Topalovic published essays on urban transformation, architec-ture and art. Since 2005, she has been running an architectural practice, often working in the crossover between art and architecture. For her design work in collaboration with Bas Princen, she was awarded the Prix de Rome for Architecture 2006 and received an architect-in-residence scholarship from the MAK-Schindler Centre for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles in 2005. Their retrospective exhibition ‘Invisible Frontier’ was shown at AUT, Innsbruck in 2008. [last updated in 2011]