Night of architecture
The Night of Architecture is a one-day cultural and educational conference aimed at spotlighting architecture as an art and the role of light (natural and artificial) in shaping the perception of form, materials, and experiences.
Iva Letilović
Architectural studio AB Forum, Zadar, Croatia
Iva Letilović
Architectural studio AB Forum, Zadar, Croatia
Architectural studio AB Forum was founded in 1992 in Zadar, Croatia. Since its foundation, the studio has designed numerous projects for buildings of various purpose: residential, health, hotel, industrial, commercial, school and sacral. In the same manner, the studio has designed many urban plans. Clients of the studio are equally corporations, private investors as well as the public sector. They are winners of the annual Viktor Kovacic Award for the most successful achievement in all areas of architectural creativity (UHA) for the reconstruction project of the Providurova Palace in Zadar, as well as recipients of the Vladimir Nazor Award for the best artistic achievement in the field of architecture, presented by the Ministry of Culture. For the same project, they were awarded the 2022 Oris Award for exceptional architectural design.
Architectural studio AB emerged as the winner of the architectural triennial finals in Bucharest, the “Architext East Centric Awards” 2016, in the category of interior design for the Permanent Exhibition of Antiquity at the Archaeological Museum. In 2021, the studio was among the candidates for the “Mies van der Rohe” Award, the European the counterpart to the “Pritzker” the most prestigious architectural award in the world – with the project “4 Houses for 4 Brothers” Regardless of the size and scale of a project as well as the client’s profile, all projects are approached with equal enthusiasm and are professionally guided throughout the process of development, monitoring and the final realization of the project.
Odile Decq
ODILE DECQ – Studio Odile Decq
Odile Decq
ODILE DECQ – Studio Odile Decq
Odile Decq is a French architect and urban planner. International renown came in 1990 with her first major commission: La Banque Populaire de l’Ouest in Rennes, France. Since then, she has been faithful to her fighting attitude while diversifying and radicalizing her research. Being awarded The Golden Lion of Architecture during the Venice Biennale in 1996 acknowledged her early and unusual career. Other than just a style, an attitude or a process, Odile Decq’s work materializes a complete universe that embraces urban planning, architecture, design and art.
Her multidisciplinary approach was recently recognized with the Jane Drew Prize in 2016, and she was honored with Architizer’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017 for her pioneering work, but also her engagement and contribution to the debate on architecture. In 2018, she received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, in recognition of her outstanding contributions in building science, design and education. The same year in October, she received the ECC Architecture Award 2018 for her contribution both as an architect and educator, and in November an Honorary Fellowship from The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland.
Odile Decq has been teaching architecture for the past 25 years. She has been invited to be a guest professor in prestigious universities such as the Bartlett (London), the Kunstakademie (Vienna & Düsseldorf), SCI-Arc (Los Angeles, CA), Columbia University (New York, NY), and more recently at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (Cambridge, MA).
