Study of Architecture and Urban Planning
Faculty of Civil Engineering Architecture and Geodesy
University of Split
Foyer of the Croatian National Theatre, Split
Andreas Frank is a partner at the :mlzd office. Founded in Biel, Switzerland in 1997, :mlzd is a diverse architectural collective that can now look back on over 35 first prizes in competitions and over 70 completed projects. Among its early major projects are the redesign of the Presidential Chamber of the UN General Assembly in New York, as well as the expansion of the Historical Museum and the City Museum in Rapperswil. Other special construction projects, such as the visitor centers of the Swiss Ornithological Institute in Sempach and Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, as well as the new construction of the ‘de la Tuilière’ football stadium in Lausanne, have been added in recent years. The breadth of this spectrum reflects the firm’s desire to avoid being restricted by form or program, and instead to continually adapt to the needs of each building project. What all projects have in common is a confident yet highly respectful attitude toward the architectural context.
Juan Herreros is a PhD Architect, Chair Professor of Architectural Design at ETSAM and Full Professor at the GSAPP of Columbia University in New York. He has taught hundreds of conferences, courses, seminars and research workshops worldwide. In 1984 he founded Ábalos&Herreros; in 1999, the LMI (Liga Multimedia Internacional); in 2006, Herreros Arquitectos and in 2014, estudio Herreros. The Herreros Arquitectos years witnessed the take-off of Juan Herreros’s international activity. During this period, the office won a series of notorious international competitions and Juan Herreros has insistently implemented his ideas on global practice and the incorporation of interdisciplinarity and talent to both the theoretical and the professional realms of architecture. Juan Herreros is an International Fellow of the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects). He has been awarded the Architectural Digest prize, the Medal of Arts from the city of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, named ‘Architect of the World’ by the Architects’ Association of the city of Lima and adoptive son of the city of Cochabamba, and has been nominated to the U.S. Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Medal.
Prostorne taktike is a young architectural office from Split founded by Antonia Cvitan Vuletić and Luka Cvitan in 2017. Their mission is to promote spatial and social values of the built space through an interdisciplinary approach and close cooperation between the profession, academia, politics and the public sector, while creating added values beyond the typical construction process. Regardless of the scope, they approach each project with equal enthusiasm and professional development. Their award-winning design of the new bridge over the Foša River in Trogir and the first prize in the competition for a kindergarten in Sloboština are just the most recent examples of work that combines maturity, social sensitivity and consistent architectural expression.
Jasmin Sirčo graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Sarajevo in 2010. Since 2010, he has been employed at the architectural firm Sinteza Arhitektura, and since 2020, he has served as the company’s director. He is a partner and one of the founders of the Polygon Workshop (2015). The Polygon Workshop team has received multiple awards at both local and international levels. He is a coordinator and one of the founders of the Days of Architecture Sarajevo project (2008–today) and the LIFT Spatial Initiatives association. Additionally, he is the founder and president of Setup – Social Initiatives, based in Visoko.
Nedim Mutevelić is an architect and designer who lives and works in Sarajevo. Educated at Faculty of Architecture in Sarajevo (2005-2011) and at Barcelona School of Architecture – ETSAB (2009-2010). Co-founder of FILTER architecture (2009), one of the most prosperous young architectural studios in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is a co-founder of LIFT – spatial initiatives (2012), an non-governmental organisation that organizes lectures, exhibitions and interactive installations about urban phenomena. Nedim holds a master’s degree in architecture and he has received a number of awards at local and international public competitions: Grand Prix Collegium Artisticum (2013), Young Balkan Designers (2015), Himalayan Mountain Hut Competition (2016), Young Balkan Designers (2016), Big See Award Product Design (2019).
Edin Zoletić is an architect and designer who graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Sarajevo in 2022. He co-founded Čavkić Zoletić arhitekti office. Their principles are rooted in environmental awareness, a deep respect for architectural heritage, structural honesty, and collaborative effort. Before opening his own studio, he contributed to various architectural projects across different countries while working at Studio Zec in Sarajevo and Ackermann&Raff in Stuttgart. Edin was part of the team for the ‘Sarajevo Now’ project at the Venice Biennale. He is a program coordinator and moderator for LIFT Spatial Initiatives association and Days of Architecture Sarajevo.
Cristina Díaz Moreno & Efren García Grinda are principals and founders of the internationally recognized architectural practice amid.cero9. Founded back in 1997 as a collaborative platform to investigate the intersections between architecture, culture and nature, the practice has evolved into a research-based design practice focused on contemporary urban, technological and cultural challenges. With a vast academic experience (A.A., GSD Harvard, ETSAM…), they have recently been appointed Professors and directors of the Studio 1 in the Institute of Architecture at the Angewandte, Vienna. Their projects have been widely disseminated and they have won more than 40 prizes in national and international competitions. Monographic issue on their work has been published in El Croquis (nº184) and their work on public space have been presented in a solo show entitled Vaults Beds Gardens at SOA Princeton University (2019). They have built the famous Institución Libre de Enseñanza headquarters in Madrid for which they have received several mayor prizes.
Pezo Von Ellrichshausen is an art and architecture studio established in Concepcion, southern Chile, in 2002 by Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen. The two believe that architecture is a form of knowledge that provides a tool to experience, read, and eventually understand the world in which we live. Sofia von Ellrichshausen received a degree in architecture from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Mauricio Pezo holds an MArch from the Universidad Catolica de Chile and an architecture degree from the Universidad del Bio-Bio. He has been awarded the Young Architect Prize by the Chilean Architects Association. They are Professor of the Practice at AAP Cornell University in New York and have been Visiting Professors at the GSD Harvard University, the IIT in Chicago, the University of Texas in Austin, the Porto Academy and the Universidad Catolica de Chile. The studio is a recipient of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Emerge Prize, the Rice Design Alliance Prize, the Iberoamerican Architecture Biennial Award, and the Chilean Architecture Award. Pezo and von Ellrichshausen were the curators of the Chilean Pavilion in the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale.
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Antón García-Abril is a European Licensed Architect and a registered architect in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He established Ensamble Studio in 2000 and has co-founded WoHo in 2020. He has dedicated his career to advancing the fields of architecture and construction through works that are internationally recognized. Together with his partner Debora Mesa, he has progressively redefined the role of the architect, adding to his design competencies those from the developer, the contractor, the fabricator and the inventor. García-Abril is full-professor at the School of Architecture and Planning of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 2012, where he co-founded the POPlab that same year. He received the Spanish Academy Research Prize in Rome in 1996. He holds a doctorate degree from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Ensamble Studio is a cross-functional team balancing imagination and reality, art and science. Their work innovates typologies, technologies and methodologies to address issues as diverse as the construction of the landscape or the prefabrication of the house. Their contributions to the theory and practice of architecture have received numerous international recognitions, the latest ones being: the 2022 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, the 2021 Marcus Prize, and the 2019 RIBA Charles Jencks Award.
BailoRull Arquitectura is an architectural firm founded by Manuel Bailo Esteve and Rosa Rull Bertran in Barcelona in 1995 after they finished their studies. They have been combining professional activity with research and teaching from the beginning. Manuel Bailo is currently a full professor at the School of Architecture of the University of Virginia (UVA) and Rosa Rull is an associate professor at the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Vallés, of the Polytechnic University of Cataluña. Some of the most representative examples of their projects are: the Jardí 0.96 house; the Ciutat Igualada hotel; the facade and the Manresa Landscape Staircase that was exhibited at the MoMA museum in New York in the ON Site Spanish Architecture 2006 exhibition. The same project was also the winner of the prestigious international Contractworld Award in Germany 2010. BailoRull received the first Comercia Space award Arad in China in 2011, as well as the FAD award twice. Recently, his project Espai Natura received the prestigious SARA Award in New York 2021. Manuel’s 14 years as a teacher in the Department of Urban Planning at the Escola Tecnica d’Arquitectura de Barcelona and his doctoral research “Urban Catalyst” make him a specialist on the topic of activating public space.
