“Čas lahko razumete in o njem razmišljate skozi paradokse. V arhitekturi je zelo pomembno, da ste akter, da problematizirate resničnost in da ni amnezije. Dejstvo je, da arhitekti, ki so bili nekoč kontrakulturni, postajajo blago s prepoznavnim imidžem. To želim relativizirati. To je v nasprotju z definicijo umetnosti in arhitekture kot določene oblike poetike nasprotovanja. Beseda nepotrpežljivost je zame včasih sopomenka za arhitekturo.”

Predavanje Tončija Žarnića na Dnevih Orisa zagotovo ne bo konvencionalna predstavitev uresničitev in projektov (tj. nesojenih uresničitev), pa tudi ne teoretiziranje o lastnem opusu niti o splošnih stvareh zunaj osebnega obsega. To bo zagotovo pravo žarnićevsko predavanje, pri katerem ni resnične razlike med osebnim in splošnim, med “pravim” projektom in teorijskim premislekom v mediju arhitekture, med nagovarjanjem študentov prvega letnika arhitekture na zagrebški fakulteti za arhitekturo in pogovorom s kolegi, posvečenci, ker je za TŽ vse to eno, delitve pa umetne.
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“Paradoxes make you understand time and think about it. A crucial thing about architecture is to be a participant, to examine reality and to avoid amnesia. In fact, architects used to be counter-cultural, but they have become merchandize with a recognizable image. I want to relativize that. It contradicts the very definition of art and architecture as a specific form of the culture of challenge. Sometimes I see the word Šintolerance’ as a synonym of architecture.”

The lecture of Tonči Žarnić at the Days of Oris will surely be neither a conventional presentation of constructions and designs (i.e. would-be constructions), nor a theoretical discussion of his own opus or general issues beyond his personal reach. It will certainly be a genuine Žarnić-style lecture, making no actual diference between the personal and the general, between “true” design and the theoretic considerations of architecture as a medium, between a speech before freshmen at the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb and a discussion with comrades or initiates, since it is all the same to TŽ, and any division is artificial.
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