Karin Šerman, Dipl.Ing.Arch., MDes, PhD, is an architect and architectural theorist, Professor of Architectural Theory at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Architecture and Head of the History and Theory Department. She graduated in architecture from the Zagreb Faculty of Architecture in 1989, received her Master in Design Studies degree in Architectural History and Theory from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1996, and her PhD from the University of Zagreb in 2000. Her work focuses on modern and contemporary architecture and culture, and current theoretical research. She has written extensively on Central European and Croatian architecture. Topics of her interest are modernist architectural practices and the legacy of the Bauhaus. In 2014 she was the curator of the Croatian entry Fitting Abstraction at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale Fundamentals: Absorbing Modernity 1914-2014, which presented Croatian modernist architectural practices of the past century.