Realizations by Croatian Architects’ 2007 - architeria.eu

ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION
Croatian Architects' Association
Zagreb, Croatia

Yearly Exhibition of Realizations by Croatian Architects’ 2007
15 April - 27 April 2008


On the 15th of April 2008 at 6 p.m., at the Plaster Casts Museum venue in Zagreb, the Yearly Exhibition
of Realizations by Croatian Architects’ 2007, organised by the Croatian Architects’ Association for
24 continuous years, since the Zagreb Architects’ Society has for the first time presented the achievements
of Croatian architects in 1984.

This year, Croatian architects have entered for the Yearly Exhibition the total number of 145 authorial
realisations, in Croatia and abroad, by 130 authors with about 200 collaborators. The exhibition
has traditionally not been selected, i.e. it has been left to the selection process of the authors themselves
who freely choose to enter their works. There are only two conditions for participation: membership
in the CAA and realisation during the last year, 2007.

The realizations have been divided into several typologies: individual residential houses, larger residential
structures, residential and business structures, business and public buildings, reconstructions and annexes,
interventions on an architectural historical entity, interventions in public space, interiors and architectural
publications.

The exhibition will be opened by the Minister of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning, and Construction,
Marina Matulović – Dropulić, who will award this year’s winners at the opening ceremony. The presence
of many important persons from Zagreb’s professional and public sphere is expected at the opening.
The exhibition will remain open until April 27th, 2008, and the Čovjek i prostor (Man and Space) magazine
No. 03-04 / 08 will be partly devoted to this important event of Croatian architecture.

At the opening of the Yearly Exhibition of Realisations by Croatian Architects 2007, Croatian Architects’
Association (CAA) will announce the winners of the prizes for the best architectural realisations during
the last year.

The prizes will be awarded in the following categories:

- VIKTOR KOVAČIĆ– for the best architectural achievement (in all domains of architecture) and life achievement
- DRAGO GALIĆ – for the best achievement in the field of residential architecture
- BERNARDO BERNARDI – for the best achievement in the field of interior decoration and design
- NEVEN ŠEGVIĆ – for the best achievement in the field of architectural publication and theory

More than a half of the entries have been realised in Zagreb (74) and the first location following it is Split
and Split County with 11 presented realisations. Zadar and Istrian County hold the next two positions with
9 realizations each, followed by Zagreb County, Osijek, and Rijeka with 7 each. This year, after a longer
period of time, three works from Karlovac area can be seen, as well as four realised abroad by Croatian
architects, all four in Austria.

Achievements from 2007 entered for the CAA awards were assessed by the Professional Council of
the CAA, headed by Nenad Kondža and comprising the following members: Maja Furlan Cimermann,
Nikola Popić, Vedran Pedišić, Dubravka Kisić, Leo Modrčin, and Veljko Olujić. At the occasion of the 130
years’ anniversary of the CAA in March this year, they announced the shortlists:
The VIKTOR KOVAČIĆ Life Achievement Award as the highest recognition of the entire life’s opus was
this year awarded to the renowned Zagreb architect LUJO SCHWERER, author of numerous realisations
among which residential towers in the Zagreb Siget housing estate (1962), Monsena tourist community near
Rovinj (1978), and the Slovenijales store in Zagreb (1970) stand out.

The nominees for this year’s VIKTOR KOVAČIĆ Award in the category of the best architectural
achievement during the last year 2007 are:

- architects Gorana Banić and Emil Šverko
for the Church of Croatian Martyrs in Čavoglave

- architects Andrej Uchytil and Renata Waldgoni
for the Church and Parish House of St. John the Evangelist, Utrine, New Zagreb

- 3LHD architects
for the Split Waterfront, Split

- architect Hrvoje Njirić and Davor Bušnja
for the Medvjed Brundo kindergarten, Zagreb

- architect Vedran Duplančić
for the Sesvetska Sopnica Primary School Replacement Structure, Sesvete, Zagreb

- architects Lea Pelivan + Toma Plejić / STUDIO UP
for the Gymnasium and Sports Hall Building in Koprivnica

In the category of the best realisation in the field of residential architecture, 49 entries were
submitted for the DRAGO GALIĆ prize, among them the nominees:

- architect Igor Franić
for Business and Residential Structure at the Corner of Zagrebačka Av. and Rd., Zagreb

- architects Saša Randić and Idis Turato
for Zagrad Residential and Business Complex, Rijeka

- architect Nikola Bašić
for the TIZ Residential and Business Complex, structure marked 1, Zadar

- architect Ivan Galić
for the FN House, Zagreb

The nominees for the BERNARDO BERNARDI yearly prize for the best achievement in the field
of interior decoration and design are:

- architects Aleksandra Krebel – Kostrenčić and Alan Kostrenčić
for the Design of the Anilox Business Premises, Žminj

- architects Ana Martina Bakić and Ivana Knez
for the Stage Design for the Drama “Grmače”, Teatar &TD, Zagreb

- architect Mario Beusan
for the Exhibition “Dalmatian Hinterland, Unknown Territory”, Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb

The nominees for the NEVEN ŠEGVIĆ yearly prize for the best publicist, critical and theoretical
contribution to the field of architecture and city-planning in 2007 are:

- architect Krešimir Rogina
for his book Abecedarij arhitekture Krešimira Rogina (Architecture in Alphabetical Order by Krešimir Rogina)

- architect Andrej Uchytil
for the book Dubrovačke pouke arhitekta Nevena Šegvića (Architect Neven Šegvić’s Dubrovnik Lessons)

-Professor Eve Blau and architect Ivan Rupnik
for the book Project Zagreb, Transition as Condition, Strategy, Practice

- art historian Darja Radović Mahečić
for the book Moderna arhitektura u Hrvatskoj 1930-ih (Modern Architecture in Croatia in 1930s)

- architects Maroje Mrduljaš, Vedran Mimica, and Andrija Rusan
for the book Suvremena hrvatska arhitektura – testiranje stvarnosti (Croatian Contemporary Architecture
– Testing Reality)

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Text and images: Croatian Architects' Association