Prav način razmišljanja o veliki odgovornosti, ki jo nosi sodobna arhitektura na Hrvaškem, nas je spodbudil, da izberemo predstavljene projekte, take, ki se zmorejo povzdigniti nad preprost funkcionalen odziv na problem, ki ga je podal naročnik, to pa nas je prepričalo, da nagradimo arhitekte, ki so pokazali, da so sposobni preseči slogovne preokupacije in lingvistične klasifikacije.
Stefano Boeri, Katalog 38. zagrebškega salona, 2003

Združenje hrvaških arhitektov, ki se je do evropskega kulturnega diskurza z majhnim zaostankom le odprlo navzven, je kot selektorja 38. zagrebškega salona arhitekture leta 2003 povabilo Stefana Boerija. Boeri je tako postal prvi mednarodno priznani arhitekt, ki je bil povabljen, da kot “diletant” (vsaj kar zadeva “realno” poznavanje hrvaške arhitekture) izbere najboljša med 450 prispelimi deli.
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It is precisely this sort of thinking about the great responsibilities borne by contemporary architecture in Croatia that prompted us to select the projects presented here, the ones capable of rising above the simple functionalist response to the problem posed by the client, and it convinced us to award the architects who have proven themselves capable of transcending stylistic preoccupations and linguistic classifications.
Stefano Boeri, 38th Zagreb Salon Catalogue, 2003.

Joining in on the European cultural discourse with a slight delay, the Croatian Architects Association invited Stefano Boeri to judge the 38th Zagreb Architecture Salon in 2003. Boeri thus became the first internationally renowned architect invited to select the best among the 450 entered works as a “dilettante” (at least as far as “genuine” familiarity with Croatian architecture is concerned).
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