Ana Dzokic (YU), Marc Neelen (NL), Ivan Kucina (YU), Milica Topalovic (YU)

The Stealth Group is a handful of architects from Belgrade (YU) and Rotterdam (NL). Founded in 2000, the collective is interested in the fields of digital/media technologies, architecture, and the dynamics of the transformation of the contemporary urban landscape. Together they have initiated and developed various projects, including in particular Projekt X and more specifically The Wild City: Genetics of Uncontrolled Urban Process, oriented towards a recent urban phenomenon in Yugoslavia - urban and architectural deregulation in the city of Belgrade. Through this project, they worked between 1999 and 2001 on an urban design model, incorporating the issues inherent to the processing and representation of urban spaces and systems in an entropic, ‘anarchic’ context. This model, which they called “urban genetic codes” is a system of codes drawn up by observation and annotation of the rules of emergent urban transformations in the context of Belgrade. The project was presented notably in Bordeaux as part of the exhibition Mutations at Arc en Rêve held in 2000, as well as to the department of urban development of the city of Belgrade. The Belgrade-Rotterdam link, the simultaneity of their research at the Berlage Institute, the teaching at the Faculty of Architecture of Belgrade, and the creation of the Stealth Group have all been the foundation stones and force of their collaboration.