Lecture:
Social cohesion and cultural continuity
17:30h
Day five, Tuesday 13 September
Bošnjački institut, Sarajevo

 

Adnan Pašić (Zagreb, 1967) is teaching Architectural Design on the Undergraduate, Master and PhD Studies at Faculties of Architecture at University of Sarajevo (US) and International University in Sarajevo (IUS). As a coordinator for International collaboration he is responsible for the Programs and Projects in advanced design studies. He is head of project and research team at the Institute of Design, Urban and Spatial Planning in Sarajevo.

Pašić studied architecture at University of Sarajevo. Professional career he begun at the Atelier of Zlatko Ugljen as an associate designer. 1998 he was Visiting Scholar at the Department of Architecture on MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Interest in phenomenon of contemporary architecture and generative and conceptual bases of architecture resulted in Master (US 2003) and PhD thesis (US 2008) Conceptualization of architectural space for culture. His work in this field is deepened through researches and studies that include works on urban design, housing projects, cultural facilities, multifunctional buildings as well as in interiors. For his works BH Association of Architects awarded him for Best Idea in 2006 and 2009.

Cultural Continuity session
The cultural continuity is important part of contemporary architecture, and in a broader sense it deepens issues related to the Green Design. Since 1960s growing awareness of insufficiency and unstustainability of western-centric cultural model as a predominant one, and consequently raises consciousness about importance of other cultural tradition as well as cultural entanglement of cultural influences in general. The topic of cultural continuity in conjunction with the social responsibility presents an inseparable part of the wider context in contemporary architecture. Something that can be understood as the deep structure of issues related to modernity at all...

A BRIDGE TO 21st CENTURY B&H ARCHITECTURE _THE ARCHITECTURE OF IVAN ŠTRAUS  

"…in Bosnia and Herzegovina is possible to find buildings and projects completely different of something you can see anywhere else."
Hans Ibelings, "RESTART 1995-2010, Arhitecture in Bosnia and Herzegovina", Sarajevo: Buybook, 2010

The Architecture is an inscription about us, time we live in and space we inhabit. Such as alterable flow of human existence the Architecture is an integral part of changes in certain time and space. The prosperity of cities and countries marks a significant urban development and architecture of representative forms and programs. Such circumstances provide an opportunity for talented and inspired individuals to influence the ordinary course of things, and through the architecture of certain places and regions provide the value and importance of universal human achievements.
Ivan Štraus marks the architecture of the city of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Yugoslavia in the second half of the 20th century, a period when Sarajevo architectural circle (Ivan Štraus, „99 Arhitekata sarajevskog kruga“, Šahinpašić, Sarajevo, 2010) becomes a creative focus of this part of the world. Active engagement in architecture he began in the 1960s, when continually lives and creates in a way of architect builder and chroniclers of contemporary architecture. With his architectural oeuvre he forms the architecture of the time he works in, in a peculiar way he continued a line of prominent individuals who shapes development of Bosnian architecture and the architecture of the city of Sarajevo.
During 60 years of active engagement in architecture Ivan Štraus by his projects and realizations draws extraordinary essays and comments of contemporary flows of world architecture. His entire opus is based on the modernist principle of creating architecture through research and innovation based on universal human values, sovereign resisting the trend of dominance of market values ​​of recent consumerist architecture. Štraus architecture emerges from elemental human curiosity, intellectual acuity and specific architectural nerve that universal sense of human being recognizes as an intervention into existing state of things in order to create better and more beautiful world of the future.
‘’Equally rational and sensible, through honesty of material, with clear constructive idea, by visual beauty of form… he proves that in parallel with international developments in these areas there were happened a process who architecture brought closer to its essence, wholeness, the complex spatial-aesthetic expression.’’, Nedžad Kurto, Forward for Exhibition Cathalogue „IVAN ŠTRAUS“, Sarajevo, 1986.