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  • ia.kupatadze@iliauni.edu.ge
  • Cholokashvili Av. 3/5 H-115 – H Building Tbilisi, 0162

Ia Kupatadze

Direction:Architecture
Position:Associate Professor

Ia Kupatadze is an architect, researcher, and Associate Professor at Ilia State University, where she also serves as Head of the MA Architecture Program. She holds a PhD in Architecture from Georgian Technical University, an MFA from the Lamar Dodd School of Art and Design, and a Master’s degree in Architecture from the Georgian Polytechnic Institute. Her academic work focuses on sustainable architecture and urban development processes in the contemporary city; she teaches both studio and theoretical courses and is actively involved in curriculum development and thesis supervision.

Her research examines the relationship between architecture, urban form, and social transformation, with a particular interest in processes of spatial change, housing, and green and public space. She has been a research scholar at Cornell University and a visiting researcher at RWTH Aachen University, and is engaged in international research collaborations and projects. Alongside her academic work, she maintains an active practice in architecture and urban research.

Scientific interests / research interests
  • Sustainable architecture
  • Urban development and ecological problems
  •  Similarities between contemporary and vernacular architeture regarding sustainable problems

Selected Publications

  • Preserving the past, shaping the future: A case study of research and didactics in Georgian and Italian academic collaboration within Erasmus+ programs
  • E. Bersani, M. Koyava-Kipiani, I. Kupatadze (2024) ICERI2024 Proceedings, pp. 3376-3383. doi: 10.21125/iceri.2024.0877
  • Tbilisi city transformation processes during Soviet Period (1930s till 1990s)
    Collection of works: მრავალშრიანი თბილისი - Tbilisi as an urban assemblage
    Edited by Ketevan Gurchiani, December, 2023
  • The work also includes a. maps of Tbilisi from 1934, 1950s, 1970s; b.Tbilisi re-development concept maps from 1934, 1970s; the material was digitalized by the group headed by I.Kupatadze;
  • Project website developed by I.Kupatadze - www.urbanassemblage.iliauni.edu.ge
  • Kupatadze I., "Tbilisi and an Open City - Hermetically Sealed Soviet Dwelling"
  • Tbilisi Architecture Biennial, November 4, 2020
  • Kupatadze I., Alavidze I., "From Soviet Utopia to New Opportunities", Darmstadt, tuprints, In: International Conference on Cities and Change "Three Decades of Post-socialist Transition", Darmstadt, May 17-18, 2019
  • Kupatadze I., Ethics vs. Aesthetics in Sustainable Architecture, Eco-Architecture V- Harmonization between Architecture and Nature; Edited By: C.A. Brebbia, Wessex Institute of Technology, UK and R. Pulselli, University of Siena, Italy, 2014; pg-553-562;
  • Maisuradze M., Kupatadze I., “Contemporary architecture and natural, alternative energy”, Ganatleba #1(4), 2012;
  • Maisuradze M., Kupatadze I., "Contemporary architecture expressive tendencies”, Ganatleba #1(4), 2012;

BOOK

  • Maisuradze M., Chanturia T., Kupatadze I., “Contemporary Architecture Composition Specifications”, Ganatleba #1(4), Georgia Technical University Editorial-publishing Group, 06.06.2014, Tbilisi

Articles 

  1. Maisuradze M., Kupatadze I., “Contemporary architecture and natural, alternative energy”, Ganatleba #1(4), 2012;
  2. Maisuradze M., Kupatadze I., Contemporary architecture expressive tendencies”, Ganatleba #1(4), 2012;
  3. Kupatadze I., Ethics vs. Aesthetics in Sustainable Architecture, Eco-Architecture V- Harmonisation between Architecture and Nature; Edited By: C.A. Brebbia, Wessex Institute of Technology, UK and R. Pulselli, University of Siena, Italy, 2014; pg-553-562;

Architectural projects 

  • Group projects developed at “Architect.ge” Ltd
  • “Green Building” - reconstruction/new building
  • Kutaisi rehabilitation/reconstruction project
  • Mukhrani Palace and Winery
  • Private Residence

As an independent architect

  • Tbilisi rehabilitation project
  • Private Residences
  • Bagrati Cathedral measurement drawings

Current Courses

  • Environmental Systems
  • Integrated Design I
  • Integrated Design III
  • Sustainable Architecture and Environmental Design
  • The Open City: Critical Analysis

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