Dr Emina Kristina Petrovic is a Lecturer in Interior Architecture at the School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where she completed a PhD in architecture in 2014, and is teaching sustainability and interior architecture. Her research focusses on building materials and their conceptual and practical role in the sustainable built environment with a particular area of expertise in the impacts building materials can have on human health in the indoor environment. Petrovic's work emphasises the importance of informed building material selection for both the built and natural environment, calling for a more detailed consideration of building materials for the totality of their implications (from ecosystem health to ethics of production), asserting the important interrelatedness of these issues. Her other research interests include popular perception of sustainability and history of the 1960s and 1970s interdisciplinary studies of the built environment.
