Daliana Suryawinata

Daliana Suryawinata profile

Associate Professor in Practice, Urban Design

E: daliana.suryawinata@monash.edu

Daliana Suryawinata is a licensed architect, urban designer, and practice researcher. She is Associate Professor in Practice (Urban Design) at Monash University, Indonesia and co-founder of SHAU (Suryawinata–Heinzelmann Architecture and Urbanism), an internationally recognised architecture and urban design practice based in Rotterdam and Bandung. Her practice research focuses on socio-climatic architecture, urban acupuncture, and the role of architects as catalysts in complex urban contexts.

Daliana holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Architecture from Tarumanagara University (Jakarta) and an Advanced Master of Architecture from the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. Before founding SHAU in 2009, she worked with internationally renowned architecture, urban design and landscape architecture offices in the Netherlands, including OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), MVRDV, and West 8. She also taught and conducted research at The Why Factory TU Delft and the Berlage Institute.

At SHAU, Daliana has co-led multi-awarded built projects across Southeast Asia, including public parks, libraries, housing, and urban masterplans, including the 14.8 hectare Vice Presidential Palace complex at Nusantara, the New Capital and 45,000m2 Performing Arts Center in Jakarta.

She bridges practice, research, and education through exhibitions, publications, lectures and jury work. She currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Architecture (RIBA/ Taylor & Francis) and is a founding member of the Microlibrary Foundation and the Liveable Cities of the Indonesian Diaspora Network.

More information

  1. Cairns, Stephen, and Daliana Suryawinata. (2023) Seed Town. Future Cities Lab Global’s Agropolitan Territories module, Cikarang (Exhibition)
  2. Heinzelmann, Florian, and Daliana Suryawinata. "SHAU’s Microlibraries: Playing is Learning." World Library, National Library of Korea, 2025.
  3. Suryawinata, Daliana. "Wanted: Architects for a Changing World." European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Awards Young Talent 2025, Fundació Mies van der Rohe, 2025.
  4. Heinzelmann, Florian, and Daliana Suryawinata. "Tropical Palace." 4° ENTRE TOI ET MOI, Biennale d’Architecture et de paysage d’Île de France BAP!, 2025.
  5. Heinzelmann, Florian, and Daliana Suryawinata. "Microlibraries." Design for the Common Good International Exhibition, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Center for Visual Art, 2022.
  6. Heinzelmann, Florian, and Daliana Suryawinata. "Multi‐Programmatic Urbanity for Indonesia." Future Urban Habitation: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Conceptions, and Designs, Wiley Online Library, 2022, pp. 101–113.
  7. Heinzelmann, Florian, and Daliana Suryawinata. "Microlibraries." Chicago Architecture Biennial 4: The Available City, 2021.
  8. Ang, Diana, and Daliana Suryawinata. "The New Soul of Kota Tua." The Jakarta Post, 7 June 2014, https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/06/07/the-new-soul-kota-tua.html.
  9. Suryawinata, Daliana, and Winy Maas. "Austeria: City of Minimum Consumption." Architectural Design, vol. 82, no. 4, 2012, pp. 114–117. Wiley Online Library.
  10. Suryawinata, Daliana, Ulf D. Hackauf, and Winy G. M. Maas. "SuperKampung." The Vertical Village, NAi Publishers, 2011, pp. 294–375.
  11. Cairns, Stephen, and Daliana Suryawinata. "Reciprocity." Open City: Designing Coexistence, SUN Publishers, 2009, pp. 377–417.

Additional publications available on Google Scholar.

  • Urban acupuncture
  • Socio-climatic design strategies
  • Kampung urbanism and informal settlements
  • Practice-based research supervisory (from 2027)
  • Ammodo Architecture Award 2025 – Grant for Microlibrary Inclusive project.
  • Stimuleringsfonds voor Creative Industries – Smart City Hall Bandung (2015).
  • Stimuleringsfonds voor Creative Industries – Kota Tua Creative Festival (2014).
  • Stimuleringsfonds voor Architecture – Open City Jakarta and Open City Batam research projects (2010).
  • Featured in RIBA publication 100 Women Architects in Practice (2025).
  • Guest on Indonesian national television programme Kick Andy! (2015).
  • Projects and profile featured in international media including The Guardian, CNN, Channel News Asia, ArchDaily, Dezeen, Monocle, Jakarta Post and El País.
  • Public lectures and reviews at global institutions including NUS, ETH Zurich, Harvard GSD, and the University of Pennsylvania.
  • TEDx Bandung speaker: Playful Public Spaces.
  • Ammodo Award for Social Architecture – Main Prize (2025)
  • Architizer A+ Awards – Urban and Masterplan Category Winner (2025)
  • Aga Khan Award for Architecture Shortlist (2019 and 2025)
  • ARCASIA Gold Award (2024)
  • RMIT International Tuition Fee Scholarship for Practice Research (2023)
  • Good Design Award Japan (2023)
  • Monsoon Architecture Awards India (2023)
  • ArchDaily Building of the Year (2021)
  • Architizer “100 Women to Watch in Architecture” (2021)
  • Tatler Asia's Most Influential List (2021)
  • Architizer A+ Awards – Libraries Category Winner (2020)
  • Globe Asia’s 99 Most Inspiring Women (2019)
  • INDE.Awards – The Influencer (2018)
  • Holcim Awards Asia Pacific Prize (2017)
  • Firm of the Year Award from the American Architecture Prize (now the Architecture Master Prize) (2017)
  • Architizer A+ Award – Community + Architecture Category Winner (2017)
  • Indonesian Diaspora Award for Innovation (2012)