Suncica Milosevic

Sunny Milosevic is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Design. She recently earned her Ph.D. in Metropolitan Planning, Policy, and Design from the University of Utah. Her dissertation, Resilient and Energy-Efficient Retrofitting Strategies for Culturally Significant Brutalist Buildings in the Western Balkans, focused on sustainable retrofit solutions that enhance building performance while preserving cultural and architectural integrity. Her research lies at the intersection of architectural history, energy efficiency, and heritage conservation, with a particular focus on under-protected modernist buildings in regions undergoing social and environmental transition. She explores adaptive reuse strategies that prioritize passive design principles and innovative, high-performance enclosure technologies to propose sustainable, long-term retrofitting methods that balance climate responsiveness with design sensitivity.

At the School of Architecture and Design, Sunny teaches architecture design studios (ARCH 208 and ARCH 609) and is developing elective courses aligned with her research expertise. Prior to this appointment, she supported faculty-led research at the University of Utah on energy-efficient retrofitting, user-oriented renovation strategies, sustainable building technologies, and indoor air quality analysis. As an Adjunct Instructor, she taught Intensive Survey of Architectural History, a required undergraduate and graduate-level course offering an extensive survey of world architecture from prehistory to contemporary practices of the 21st century; and Public Interest Design, a required graduate-level course focusing on community- and user-engagement throughout the design process, emphasizing collaboration among contractors, architects, and developers.

With nearly a decade of experience in architectural practice, Sunny has worked with leading firms in Chicago, including Solomon Cordwell Buenz, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, Hirsch MPG, and Perkins and Will. She remains engaged in professional discourse through collaborative research and active membership in the Facade Tectonics Institute (FTI), the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), as well as through ongoing involvement with the Transforming Places, Practices, and Pedagogies Collaborative (TP3C).

She holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Cincinnati and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture with High Honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.