Public Lecture Series on Architecture 2024 / 2025

Study of Architecture and Urban Planning
Faculty of Civil Engineering Architecture and Geodesy
University of Split

symposium 25.10.2024. / PUBLIC SPACE

Foyer of the Croatian National Theatre, Split

Andraž Keršič,

a2o2 studio was established in 2019 by Klara Bohinc, Andraž Keršič, Žiga Ravnikar, and Eva Senekovič. Over the past ten years, they have worked in different teams on various projects. Each member has unique interests and skills, but they all share the belief that they are stronger together and that collaboration enables a better understanding of the world they impact with their work. They are interested in the stories of places and people, and they strive for simple, purposeful, and responsible solutions, regardless of the scale of the task at hand. The team has harnessed many years of experience gained in domestic and foreign architectural studios into a creative team they perceive as a flexible and living organism with a wide range of skills. They believe that active dialogue is essential to developing architecture that becomes useful and beautiful in the long term. They enjoy working with natural materials that develop a patina over time. Inspired by Slovenian artisanal traditions and craftsmanship, they also embrace modern techniques and technologies. a2o2 studio has received several awards and recognitions for their work. Their projects have been presented at numerous exhibitions and in various publications, including in Ljubljana (ŠKUC Gallery), Berlin (AEDES Metrolab), and Vienna (TU Vienna) as part of the New Practices, New Tools project.

Dora Lončarić,

NEKOLIKO is an architectural office from Zagreb, comprised of several younger generation architects: Dora Lončarić, Mario Kralj, Hrvoje Arbanas, and Mario Peko. They have been gathering knowledge and experience for years, but have been working in this format since the fall of 2022. Their focus spans all scales of architecture, as well as various tasks and purposes: from public buildings and community standards, designing public spaces, to private investments and interior design. They believe in the importance of architectural competitions, in which they frequently participate. They are still questioning the significance and dynamics of team work, the adopted or learned patterns and knowledge through formal education, as well as the position of young architects in the profession and society.

Saša Bradić

Saša Bradić completed his studies in architecture at the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb. He co-founded and partnered in the office architektur.bn in 1994 with Ines Nižić, and worked with nmpb architekten until 2023. Starting in 2024, he co-founded and leads the office bup architekten with Ines Nižić in Vienna. Since 1995, he has been teaching at the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University of Vienna. As part of the scientific department for housing, he has organized and led the annual international architecture workshops “Übergänge” since 2001, along with exhibitions, catalogs, and publications. He is the author and co-author of numerous award-winning, exhibited, and published architectural and urban projects and studies. He has given numerous lectures domestically and internationally and exhibited in Zagreb, Vienna, Ljubljana, Leuven, Bolzano, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Burgos, Stockholm, Bruges, Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Rijeka, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Athens, and at the Royal Academy in London. He was the curator for Croatia for the Wonderland exhibition, architektur.bn, in 2005, and for the YEA “Young European Architects” conference in Rotterdam in 2004. He was a guest lecturer at UIAV Venice in 2015. He is a member of the selection committee for the “Theodor Körner” Foundation award.

Alberto Viega

Alberto Veiga grew up in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He studied architecture at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Navarra and, after his studies, in 2004 he founded the office Barozzi Veiga, together with Fabrizio Barozzi. Barozzi Veiga won numerous prizes in national and international competitions. Barozzi Veiga has been distinguished with the Ajac Young Catalan Architect Award (2007) and the Barbara Cappochin International Architecture Award (2011). In 2012 the Ribera del Duero Headquarter was awarded with the Gold Medal for Italian Architecture for the Best Debut Work 2012. In 2015 the project for the Szczecin Philharmonic received the prestigious Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture and the International FAD Award. In 2018 the Bündner Kunstmuseum in Chur, Switzerland, was awarded with the RIBA Award for International Excellence, which distinguished the best 20 buildings constructed worldwide during the last three years. In 2019 Barozzi Veiga has been granted the Chicago Atheneum International Award, the Best Architects 20 Award and the AD Award Architects of the Year. In 2020 the office has been shortlisted for the International FAD Award and for the Dezeen Awards. More recently, the newly built MCBA Lausanne won the NAN Award and the Grand Prix Fritz-Höger-Preis 2020 for Brick Architecture. Alberto Viega has taught at the International University of Catalonia in Barcelona (2007–10) and has been a visiting professor at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (2014) and the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Navarra (2021). He regularly lectures about Barozzi Veiga’s theoretical background and design approach and participates in academic activities worldwide. He has been invited to present his work in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Chile, and United States.

Lectures at fgag

14.11.2024.

José Toral 

José Toral is a partner, with Marta Peris, at the Barcelona-based architecture firm PERIS+TORAL ARQUITECTES. Since 2016, José Toral has been an associate professor in the Department of Architectural Projects at Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB UPC), where he specializes in public space and urban projects. Office PERIS+TORAL is dedicated to researching innovative living and building methods to tackle the climate and housing crises. PERIS+TORAL has received the CSCAE 2022 Spanish Architecture Award and was a finalist for the EU Mies Award 2022. Their work has been exhibited at prominent venues such as the Cité de l’Architecture in Paris (2022), the Best Architecture Exhibition Spain-Korea in Seoul (2021), the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2016), and the UIA in Tokyo (2011), among others. Their projects and writings have been extensively published in national and international magazines and media.

www.peristoral.com

3.12.2024.

João Branco, Paula Del Rio,

João Branco is a partner, alongside Paula del Rio, at Branco Del-Rio architecture studio based in Coimbra. Branco studied architecture at the Department of Architecture of the University of Coimbra and ETSA in Barcelona between 2001 and 2008. He pursued the Máster en Proyectos Arquitectónicos Avanzados at ETSA Madrid in 2011, where he worked as an assistant professor under Juan Carlos Sancho. In 2014, he completed the Energy for Sustainability (EfS) postgraduate studies, an initiative of the University of Coimbra in collaboration with the MIT Portugal Program. Between 2008 and 2010, he worked in the offices of Jorge Teixeira Dias, Jordi Badia, and João Mendes Ribeiro. He began working independently in 2011. In 2018-2019, he was a Guest Assistant in Design Studio (5th year) at Darq UC with Paulo Providência. He is currently developing a PhD thesis at Darq UC, Coimbra, hosted at CITUA (Center for Innovation in Territory, Urbanism, and Architecture) in IST (Instituto Superior Técnico), Lisbon.

www.branco-delrio.com

21.3.2025.

Geir Brendeland

Geir Brendeland founded Brendeland & Kristoffersen with Olav Kristoffersen in 2003. Based in Trondheim in Norway, the practice’s most recent projects include Hage, a garden in Lund, Sweden, that will become the heart of a future piece of city. The practice was a finalist in the AR Emerging awards in 2005 – in which they received an honourable mention for their timber Svartlamoen housing project in Trondheim. The office is the recepient of the prestigious Norwegian prize for Wood Architecture 2014.The office has won several architectural competitions and is recognised for their work with typologies, context and creating buildings showing innovative use of wood in architectural constructions. Brendeland is a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim and is frequently a visiting critic at several international architecture schools.

www.bkark.no

11.4.2025.

Robert Konieczny

Robert Konieczny graduated in Architecture from the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. In 1996, he received a certificate from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is a leader and a founder of KWK Promes architecture studio, established in 1999. In 2016, the project National Museum – Dialogue Centre Przemyśl in Szczecin was awarded World Building of the Year at the international competition World Architecture Festival. Also in 2016, the same project was recognized as The Best Public Space in Europe by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona in the European Prize for Urban Public Space competition. His latest award is the title of Best New Private House in the worldwide Wallpaper Design Awards 2017 for Konieczny’s Ark. Konińczyk has been nominated fourteen times for the European Award of the Mies van der Rohe Foundation for projects including Atrial House, Otrial House, Komoda House, Broken House, Safo House, Auto-Family House, Living-Garden House in Katowice, and Living-Garden House in Izbica, as well as the Ark and Museum Dialogue Centre Przemyśl in Szczecin. He also received the House of the Year 2006 award for the Atrial House, which was recognized as the best housing project in a competition organized by World Architecture News. In 2011, Konieczny was awarded by the Minister of Culture in Poland for his outstanding achievements in the field of architecture, becoming only the second architect ever to receive this honor. In 2007, the KWK Promes office was listed among the 44 best young architects in the world by Scalae. That same year, Wallpaper magazine recognized Konińczyk’s practice as one of the 10 most exciting architecture studios in the world. The year 2008 brought him the prize from the European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, as well as The Chicago Athenaeum’s “Europe 40 Under 40” for emerging young architects. Additionally, the International Jury of the Museum of Architecture and Design in Chicago included the Atrial House and the Hidden House on their list of the best houses in the world. In 2019, the Safe House was a finalist at the World Architecture Festival Awards among the best realizations in the world, and the Otrial House was a finalist for the LEAF Awards 2009 in Berlin. Hans Ibelings, in his book “European Architecture since 1891”, placed KWK Promes studio among the conceptualists.

www.kwkpromes.pl

16.5.2025.

Elena Orte i Guillermo Sevillano

SUMA is an architectural firm specialized in singular residential and public architecture, whose work is characterized by research and a pioneering and entrepreneurial drive. They have developed an ecosystemic design system that fosters social bonds in our built environment, the use of bio materials such as wood and a high ecological responsibility. Their works have won numerous awards: EUmies Awards 2024 Emerging Architecture Award, COAM First Prize, IFLA Award for Best Public Library in the World, FAD Award, Ciutat de Barcelona Award, ASPRIMA-SIMA Awards, NAN Award, REBUILD Awards, AITIM-ASA -ONESTA Wood Architecture Awards and Wood Design Awards. The studio is led by Elena Orte and Guillermo Sevillano . Architects graduated from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (ETSAM), Master in Advanced Architectural Design from the same school and from Columbia University in New York, respectively. Elena and Guillermo founded SUMA in 2005 and are currently professors at the Polytechnic School of Architecture in Madrid and at the IAAC in Barcelona. SUMA has participated in different exhibitions (IFEMA Madrid Fair, Matadero, EMVS, Fresh Madrid) and conferences in New York, Beijing, Austria, Turkey, Australia, Luxembourg, Latvia and Uruguay. SUMA is located in Madrid and comprises a multidisciplinary team of professionals who participate in the design process: architects, engineers, agronomists, landscape architects, experts in sustainability, architectural communication, sociologists, etc. SUMA has won several national and international competitions including the Gabriel García Márquez Library in Barcelona, the Library and Multipurpose Center of Fuerteventura, 91 public housing units in San Francisco Javier and 73 public housing units in San Sebastián de los Reyes (for the Municipality and Government of Madrid). They have also been selected and awarded prizes in competitions such as the Helsinki Central Library and the Verín Arts Center in Galicia.

www.sumaarquitectura.eu

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