“Ne bom vam govoril, kaj morate narediti ali kaj je arhitektura. Odkrito povedano, tega ne vem. Tega nihče ne ve: še celo Tolstoj ni vedel, kako bi zgradil družbo prihodnosti. Sam ne vem, kakšna bo arhitektura prihodnosti. In vendar, smo člani istega tima in naša naloga je, da ugotovimo, katere rastline, katere cvetlice, katero listje bo bolje uspevalo jutri. To je naš problem.”

Predavanje Alvara Aalta na Architectural Association v Londonu, 1950.

Pred nekaj meseci je slovenski arhitekturni studio Bevk Perović Arhitekti dobil prestižno evropsko nagrado za arhitekturo, Mies van der Rohe Award, v kategoriji Emerging Architect. Komisija je razložila, da je podelila nagrado za iznajdljivo programsko organizacijo in občutljivo obravnavo površine stavbe – prizidka Fakultete za matematiko v Ljubljani , torej za dobro arhitekturno rešitev.
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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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