As a live contribution to [Home at Arsenale] – Pavilion of Slovenia, Hrvoje Njiric & Vasa Perovic shall comment on their selection of relevant books on housing and relate them to the projects of njiric+ and bevk perovic architects. In the conversation Hrvoje Njiric and Vasa Perović shall confront and discuss a number of issues defining a domestic domain.

Hrvoje Njirić was born in Zagreb in 1960. Graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb in 1986. Has been a guest critic and taught at workshops and at different schools in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Professor at Technical University in Graz, 2000-2005, and since 2007 professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and
Architecture Split and ETSAM in Madrid. He has run office njiric+ arhitekti in Zagreb. More significant realization: Baumaxx Hypermarket (with H. Njirić), Maribor, 1999; McDonald’s Drive-In (with H. Njirić), Maribor, 2000; Gračani Housing, Zagreb, 2007; Rural Mat (with H. Sterpin), Zagreb, 2008 and MB Kindergarten (with D. Bušnja), Zagreb, 2008. He won a number of Croatian and several international recognitions (Best40) for the Mies van der Rohe Award in 2009 (MB Kindergarten).

In 1997 with Matija Bevk, Vasa Perović founded Bevk Perović architects. The office is based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and is working on diverse range of projects, in different European countries. Their work includes variety of projects in different scales – large housing projects, both social and commercial, public buildings, university buildings, museums, congress facilities as well as individual houses. For their work, the office has been awarded numerous national and international prizes – European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award in 2007, Kunstpreis Berlin in 2006, Piranesi Award in 2005, etc. They exhibit their work extensively, and recent solo exhibitions of their work have been organized in Kunstverein Bielefeld, Germany, Museum for Applied Arts, Belgrade, Serbia, Fragner Gallery, Prague, Czech republic and COAC Girona, Spain. The work of the office has been published extensively in international publications and published in monographic issues of El Croquis and A+U magazine. Both Matija and Vasa lecture and teach internationally, and Vasa holds a professorship at Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana.

Location

Arsenale / Pavilion of Slovenia
[Home at Arsenale] Campo della Tana, 2169/F, 30122 Venezia, Italy

Admission

Entrance with  tickets of 15th International Architecture Exhibition – Reporting from the front

Info

homeatarsenale(at)gmail.com
www.homeatarsenale.org