David Radović
Founder & Director, Heritage Intelligence. From the construction site and the lecture hall to the state’s review desk and the drawing board, he has seen buildings from every side. Now he builds the intelligence they were missing.
Architect and conservator, educated in Belgrade, Glasgow and Milan, with 80+ architecture and cultural-heritage projects across Montenegro and Serbia. Every tool Heritage Intelligence makes starts from a problem he met on a real project.
80+
Architecture and cultural heritage
200+
For the Chief State Architect
20+
Co-mentored in two final studios
15
Construction and conservation supervision
2014
Montenegro and Serbia
Every chair in a building’s life.
Most people in construction see a project from one seat. David has worked from seven of them. That vantage point is what Heritage Intelligence is built from.
Architect-Conservator · Studio Prostor, Podgorica
Director 2015–2019. Main and conceptual designs for museums, hotels, villas and housing, most recently the Park-Museum at Topolica in Bar and King Nikola’s Palace in Nikšić (2025).
Chief of site & site engineer · KOTO, Belgrade
2023–2024. Heritage works on the Nadežda and Rastko Petrović Memorial Museum, the Belgrade Fortress Zindan Gate complex, the Chapel of St. Petka and the Vršac Town House.
Associate of the Chief State Architect · Government of Montenegro
Quality control and improvement of 200+ conceptual architectural and urban projects, state design strategy, and working groups on rulebooks and law amendments.
Teaching Assistant, master design studios · University of Belgrade
2023–2024. Co-mentored 20+ master final theses and projects in two master final studios, “Planification of the Plain” and “Eco-Techno Park: Mountain Radan”.
Licensed Conservator of Cultural Heritage · since 2017
A large share of his 80+ projects are conservation projects, for listed cultural property and for buildings in protected zones such as Kotor: Grand Hotel Lokanda, Zetski dom, Palata Smekja and the Austro-Hungarian bathhouse at Porto Montenegro.
Construction & conservation supervisor · 15 projects
Including King Nikola’s Palace at Topolica, Lazaret in Meljine (Lazure Hotel & Marina), the Clock Tower in Podgorica and housing complexes in Budva and Podgorica.
Adviser to the Mayor of Kotor (2022) · PhD candidate
Spatial planning and urbanism in the natural and cultural-historical area of Kotor, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Since 2022 at the Laboratory for Architectural and Urban Design in Protected Environments, the faculty’s doctoral lab; research presented in Athens, Porto, Belgrade and Naples.
Why the products look the way they do.
Each Heritage Intelligence venture answers a problem David met from one of those chairs.
Heritage Intelligence
Research and innovation in software for architecture, construction and heritage.
From the chair of a doctoral researcher in protected environments.
Elemental ↗
A marketplace of precise 3D architectural and heritage elements.
From the chair of a licensed conservator working mostly in protected zones.
Struktura+ ↗
Construction oversight designed so progress counts only once supervision signs it, and a network of the professionals behind every build.
From the chair of a chief of site and supervisor on 15 builds.
Regola ↗
Automated compliance checks of architectural projects submitted for design permits.
From the chair of a state reviewer of 200+ architectural submissions.
Education and expert engagements.
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture
PhD Candidate in Architecture and Urbanism · 2020– · Master of Architecture · 2017–2019
University of Strathclyde
PG Advanced Architectural Design · 2015–2016
Politecnico di Milano
BSc Architecture · 2011–2015
Facilitator for Montenegro
European Heritage Hub (EU – Europa Nostra)
Expert jury
In 3 international urban-architectural competitions; working groups on rulebooks and law amendments, Government of Montenegro.
Heritage and youth
Heritage Impact Assessment team, DUP Morinj, Kotor protected area. Montenegro representative, Europa Nostra Youth Special Task Force for the Western Balkans (2017).
Member: Chamber of Architects and Planners of Montenegro · Engineers Chamber of Montenegro · Europa Nostra · ESACH
Selected publications.
Temporal continuity and cultural preservation: philosophical frameworks for digital heritage engagement
Arts & Communication · 2026 · open access
Building Bridges and not Borders: heritage-based co-creation programs as a peacebuilding tool
Faro Convention International Conference, Porto · 2024 · with J. Popović, T.-A. Spasovska
Bilbordizacija ulazaka u grad: predio i rekadrirani identitet
Arhitektura i urbanizam, no. 57, Belgrade · 2023
Assemblages Becoming: exploring the Montenegrin landscapes with Deleuze and Guattari
Deleuze and Guattari Conference, Belgrade · 2023
The risks and dangers of planning and building on the universal values of the UNESCO area of Kotor
La Vie dei Mercanti XVIII Forum, Gangemi Editore · 2020 · with G. Radović
Full record on ORCID ↗ · LinkedIn ↗ · ResearchGate ↗ · Academia ↗
Heritage Intelligence is supported by
NTP Crne Gore · Ministry of Culture and Media · Capital City Podgorica · MontEDIH · ETF, University of Montenegro · BoostMeUp vol. 6
Construction runs on trust and paperwork. We turn both into evidence.
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