Architectural Concept undertook wrestling with the most difficult concepts and problems, with such considerable care and rare honesty that almost no notion leaves unquestioned. From the “concept” itself, through the “subject”, “object”, “identity”, to the “construction”, “project” and “platform”, nothing is left to self-evidence, but on the contrary: exposed in its polysemy. And beyond that, all those miniatures or even independent essays are contextualized into one task, into one conception, we would say, into one textual architectonics. The concept here becomes something between the “middle term” and the position from which the practice of architecture takes place and the starting point for reflection on the status and mission or debt of the architect.

Participants: Aleksandar Bobić (FMK, Belgrade), Petar Bojanić (IFDT), Igor Cvejić (IFDT), Miloš Ćipranić (IFDT), Sonja Dedić (Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade), Vladan Đokić (Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade), Edward Đorđević (University of Giessen), Milan Đurić (Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade), Vladimir Milenković (Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade), Marija Milinković (Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade), Jelena Mitrović (Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade), Ana Nikezić (Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade), Željko Radinković (IFDT), Snežana Vesnić (Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade), Draško Vuksanović (Akademska knjiga, Novi Sad)

Snežana Vesnić is an architect and assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Belgrade. She also holds a degree from the Faculty of Applied Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade, and is a founding partner of the architectural studio Neoarhitekti. Vesnić’s designs – both for competitions and those developed – have garnered numerous awards, such as “Aleksej Brkić,” of the Union of Architects of Serbia for the Villa Pavlović (2018), two nominations for the Mies van der Rohe Award (also for Villa Pavlović and Commercial Building in Užice, 2019). Her current project is the kinetic structure, RTS Memorial ‘Sixteen’, as well as the book Memorials and Genius Loci (with Prof. E. Morezzi of the Politecnico di Torino). With the philosopher Petar Bojanić, she is the founder of the journal Chorein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy (2021). She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies of the University of Rijeka. Her scientific research is in the field of architectural philosophy and aesthetics, focusing on the production of “architectural concepts”.