“Neću vam govoriti o tome što morate napraviti ili što je arhitektura. Iskreno rečeno, to ne znam. Nitko to ne zna: čak ni Tolstoj nije znao kako da izgradi društvo budućnosti. Ja sam ne znam kakva će biti arhitektura budućnosti. A ipak, članovi smo istog tima i naša je zadaća da utvrdimo koje biljke, koji cvjetovi, koji listovi će sutra bolje uspijevati. To je naš problem.”

Predavanje Alvara Aalta na Architectural Association u Londonu, 1950.

Prije nekoliko mjeseci je slovenski arhitektonski studio Bevk Perović Arhitekti dobio prestižnu europsku nagradu za arhitekturu “Mies van der Rohe” u kategoriji Emerging Architect. Komisija je obrazložila da je dodijelila nagradu za domišljatu programsku organizaciju i senzibilan tretman površine zgrade – dogradnje Fakulteta matematike u Ljubljani – dakle za dobro arhitektonsko rješenje.
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“I shall not tell you what you should do and what architecture is. Frankly, I do not know. Nobody knows: even Tolstoy did not know how to construct the society of tomorrow. I do not know what the architecture of tomorrow will be. But we are all members of the same team and we should find out which plants, which flowers, which leaves, should grow better tomorrow. That is our problem.”

Alvar Aalto, lecture at the AA in London, 1950.

A few months ago the Slovenian architectural studio Bevk Perović Architects was awarded the prestigious European Union prize for contemporary architecture, the Mies van der Rohe Award, in the category Emerging Architect. The jury explained that this award was granted for well articulated programmatic organisation and tactile treatment of the surfaces of the building – the Faculty of Mathematics – which means that it was granted for the building’s architectural merits.
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