7.05.-15.05.2010.




„Let’s learn from the crisis and develop, accepting the changes“.

An exhibition of Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish architectures
Curators: Nataša Zednik, Bojan Borić and Zoran Lazović

Denmark curators: Zoran Lazović and Nataša Zednik
JDS Architects; C. F. Møller Architects; We Architecture

Norway curators: Nataša Zednik
Fantastic Norway Architects; Huus & Heim Architecture; Helen & Hard; Brendeland & Kristoffersen Architects; Jensen & Skodvin Arkitekter

Seden curators: Bojan Borić
Tham & Videgård Arkitekter; Kjellander + Sjöberg Arkitektkontor

Finnland curators: Nataša Zednik
NOW for Architecture and Urbanism; Anttinen Oiva Architects Ltd; Lassila Hirvilammi Architects Ltd

The exhibition comprises designs by several architecture studios from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Regardless of their professional experience, the architects from these studios focus more on energy efficiency that would be in function of maintainable construction rather than on the composition of form, overcoming the functional organisation of space or adjusting the form of a building to the environment. Their houses are energy efficient. They do not produce carbon. They use solar or geothermal energy and local or recyclable materials, and they are affordable at the same time. Such an approach towards architecture in Scandinavian countries is generally accepted among architects and investors as well who are gradually becoming aware of the fact that the future of living is in achieving “an ecologically efficient and socially stimulating urban environment”, i.e. “an ecological balance” between the constructed environment and the natural one. Today Scandinavian countries are working on strategies to overcome ecological problems, and their architects are bearers of the changes that are necessary to solve these issues. The curators of this exhibition, Nataša Zednik (Finland and Norway), Bojan Borić (Sweden) and Nataša Zednik together with Zoran Lazović (Denmark), want to present to the professionals in the domain of architecture and the public in Serbia a possible way of architecture development, primarily residential architecture, in the times of energetic and economic crisis. In addition, the curators hope that Serbian architects, with help of local investors, would accept the motto of their Scandinavian counterparts: „Let’s learn from the crisis and develop, accepting the changes“. The exhibition consists of the designs created by JDS Architects, C. F. Møller Architects and We Architecture from Denmark; Fantastic Norway Architects, Huus & Heim Architecture, Helen & Hard, Brendeland & Kristoffersen Architects and Jensen & Skodvin Arkitekter from Norway; Tham & Videgård Arkitekter and Kjellander + Sjöberg Arkitektkontor from Sweden, and NOW for Architecture and Urbanism, Anttinen Oiva Architects Ltd and Lassila Hirvilammi Architects Ltd from Finland.

Nataša Zednik (Belgrade, 1978) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture (2003) in Belgrade and Cornell University (2007) in Ithaca, NY, USA. Since 2007 she has been living and working in Oslo where she founded together with her colleague architect Eli Goldstein an architecture studio Bifokal (2009). She engages in architectural practice and research in the domain of interactive technology and interdisciplinary collaboration. Bifokal works together with biologists, electronics engineers and other architecture studios. In addition, Nataša Zednik organises workshops on the Faculty of Architecture in Oslo (AHO). She is a Board member of the Oslo Architects’ Association (OAF) where she is in charge of a series of lectures. See more on www.bifokal.no

Bojan Borić (Belgrade, 1968) moved to the United States of America in 1986. He graduated from Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union, New York, in 1993. Three years later he won his master degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from Colombia University. Since 1993 he has been working as an architect on different projects, ranging from interior design to residential building, public and urban projects in the area of New York City. He has worked as a designer for Perkins Eastman Architects on some important urban planning projects in China. In 1997 he founded together with Jelena Mijanović an architecture and design studio Forma. The studio in moved to Stockholm in 2004. Bojan Borić has taken part in various exhibitions, worked on different projects on the subject of urbanism throughout the world. He conducts academic researches in New York and Stockholm as well. Bojan Borić is currently teaching at School of Architecture in Stockholm. He is a master‘s programme co-ordinator for Programme of Urban Planning and Design at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

Zoran Lazović (London, 1954) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade University. He received advanced training at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. He attended Ecole National Supérieur d’Architecture Paris-Belleville, France, i.e. its DEA master programme (Diplôme d’Etat d’Architecte). Zoran Lazović has worked for Jugoprojekt and the Institute for Testing Materials. He has been major architect at P. SVEŽIK and DOMELA & SARFATI in Paris. He obtained license for professional work in France in 1999. Zoran Lazović has been teaching at the Faculty of Architecture since 1989. His field is students’ training practice in the architecture studio, where this architect teaches his students how to create prerequisites necessary for understanding and developing their own methodology of design based on their theoretical knowledge, and how to contemplate the phenomenology of their work in a certain context, the essence of a task and sources of knowledge. He is the author of several publications, different successfully carried out architectural projects and solo exhibitions held in the country and abroad. He writes for various leading magazines.

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