new interpretive grounds

Setiadi Sopandi is a professional architect, lecturer, and architectural historian. He is born, raised, living, and practicing architecture in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. In 2017 he co-founded and chaired arsitekturindonesia.org – a foundation acting as the repository dedicated to collect and publish Indonesian architectural archival collections. He published “Sejarah Arsitektur: Sebuah Pengantar” (Architectural History: An Introduction, published by Gramedia, 2013) – a textbook for Indonesian architectural students, “Friedrich Silaban” (Gramedia, 2017) – an extended biography of the most prominent Indonesian modern architect in the 20th century, acted as guest editor for Docomomo Journal 57, co-edited/ co-produced “Gerak Jakarta: Sejarah Ruang-Ruang Hidup” (forthcoming), and contributed in several publications. His activities in research and publication are orbitted around several shows produced by arsitekturindonesia.org. He co-curated & co-directed several architectural exhibitions, i.e. the Indonesia Pavilion in the Venice Architecture Biennale 2014, “Tropicality: Revisited” in Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt (2015), “Friedrich Silaban, 1912-1984” in the National Gallery of Indonesia (2017), “apaituami” (2018), “occupying > modernism” (2019), “Dipl.-Ing. Arsitek: German-graduate Indonesian Architects from The 1960s” (2022), Komodo National Park Visitor Center (2022), “Suatu Hari Yang Baik, 2045” (2023), and “Iravati M. Sudiarso: Untuk Seni dan Negeri” (2023).