Iulius Emil Popa

Iulius Popa (b. 1978) is a Graz-based architect and academic specialising in spatial design and prototyping. Since 2026, he serves as Lecturer for Spatial Design and Fabrication at FH JOANNEUM, where he previously taught Model Making in the Master’s programme Exhibition Design for eleven years. Concurrently, he held a position as University Lecturer at TU Graz, delivering courses in construction theory and model-making while contributing to projects such as the Multimedia Model for the Schlossberg Museum.
From 2005 to 2017 and again between 2022 and 2026, Popa worked as an architect and model-maker for leading architectural firms in Graz. He also brought architectural heritage to local and international audiences as a guide for the House of Architecture Graz for a decade. A graduate in architecture from Romania and TU Graz, where he earned his master’s degree, his career bridges academic instruction, hands-on fabrication, and the dissemination of architectural knowledge.