One of the most noted architecture offices in Croatia, 3LHD’s co-founder Sasa Begovic will be the guest in the first series of ARKIMEET supported by BUILDIST.
Since 2003, Arkitera Architecture Center has been inviting more than 25 internationally known architects to Istanbul to share their professional aspects and projects. Now, in 2010 the ARKIMEET series gains a new dimension with the support of BUILDIST.
The four of the first conferences to be held in the first half of 2010 focuses on qualified architectural production owners from countries located near Turkey. Respectively from Croatia, Russia, Iran and Egypt, these countries’ noted architects will share their experiences of architecture which are less known in the global world of architecture, but also as much exciting, with Turkish colleagues.
Supported by BUILDIST, another event of Arkitera Architecture Center, the new series of ARKIMEET conferences hosts especially the architects from the countries about which we have very limited information of architectural production environment, but are in contrast also located near Turkey geographically. Thus, instead stars from global architectural media, qualified and interesting productional processes of architecture from near countries are brought to Istanbul, which is the aim of the events.
Supported by BUILDIST, the first conference of the series will be held on February 9th, its guest being Sasa Begovic, the co-founder of 3LHD, one of the most noted offices in Croatia. The event is both organized at the Besiktaş campus of Bahçeşehir University and also supported by the institution.
Until BUILDIST on September 30th – October 3rd, at least four ARKIMEET conferences will be organized. For detailed information and programs, visit www.arkimeet.org for ARKIMEET and www.buildist.com.tr for BUILDIST.
About Sasa Begovic
Born in 1967 in Croatia, Sasa Begovic is one of the co-founders of 3LHD. After having graduated from Zagreb University, Faculty of Architecture in Croatia, he founded the architectural office 3LHD together with Marko Dabrovic, Tatjana Grozdanic Begovic and Silvije Novak.
Begovic was always included in the team from the first project that brought the founders together, to the latest ones. He also was the responsible architect in several new and big projects like Riva Split in the Split Region and Spaladium Arena. Both of these projects were complete until the day of opening performances of the facilities. The Arena was designed for the 2009 Mens’ Handball World Championship and the construction was finished in 440 days.
Begovic was the editor in chief of Man and Space, a Croatian architecture magazine. Currently he is professor at RIBA, COAC, Van Alen Institute and ETH, Berlage Institute, TU Braunschweig, TU Darmstadt, TU München, TU Vienna and TU Graz where he also gives speeches. He gives lectures at local faculties of architecture GAF Split and AF Zagreb periodically. He was guest professor at TU Graz between 2002-2006 and is a member of DAZ, Zagreb Association of Architects.
About 3LHD Architects
3LHD is an architectural design office was founded in 1994, Zagreb, Croatia by Sasa Begovic, Marko Dabrovic, Tatjana Grozdanic and Silvije Novak. All of the founders graduated from Zagreb University, Faculty of Architecture and they all live and work in Zagreb. Since it’s been founded, 3LHD’s number of employees increased from 4 to 26 and the office’s organization was separated into four different project teams supported by office administration, management, finance and public relations departments. With a contemporary approach, the office handles the cases with team work, using knowledge and experience and cooperating with experts from different disciplines. Their projects vary from private houses, residences, public and office buildings to sports complexes and more than 60 realized infrastructure facilities. Among their clients are well known companies, associations, private investors and city and state institutes.
Projects like The Memorial Bridge and The Zamet Centre in Rijeka, Riva Split Waterfront, Sports Hall Bale, Hotel Lone in Rovinj, The Croatian Pavillon in EXPO 2005, Japan and at EXPO 2008, Zaragoza, Spain and The Eastern European Cultural Centre in China shows that the office is accepted not only by the architectural, but also by local and foreign environments.
3LHD’s works won many international and national awards including WAF 2008 World Architecture Festival (Barcelona), IOC/IAKS Award (Cologne), AR + D Award (London), ID Magazine Award (USA) and Croatian professional awards D.Gali?, B.Bernardi, V.Kova?i? and V.Nazor.
They are also exhibitied in Harvard, New York, Vienna, Rotterdam, Kopehag, München, London, Hamburg, Belgrad, Skopje, Moscow and published in Detail, A10, Wallpaper, Hinge, C3, A+U, The Architectural Review, db-Deutche Bauzeitung, Bauwelt, Werk, Bauen + Wohnen, Interni, Il Progetto, Piranesi, Oris, CiP, Giornale dell‘Architettura, Architektur Aktuell, Abitare, Architekti, RD2 and Concept.
About BUILDIST
BUILDIST is a building materials fair organized with the cooperation of Arkitera Architecture Center and Survey Marketing + Consulting.
With the vision of creating The New Meeting Point for Design, Architecture, Innovation and Technology, BUILDIST is designed to become an innovative platform where professionals from different disciplines come together. Consisting of various layers, this structure is going to be revealed in 2010 to intensify interdisciplinary relations and cooperations.
Arkitera and Survey, considering also a fair’s visitors as important as its exhibitors, bear a resemblance from the past days: Arkitera Architecture Center maintained its identity thanks to the audience (the visitors) of more than 300 event i organized for the construction industry. Today, similarly Survey owes its worldwide success to the principle of pleasing the fairs’ visitors using various strategies. These different points of view with the same results will affect BUILDIST 2010 in terms of increased number of visitors, what means also customers for exhibiting companies and thus a real benefiting fair organization.
Having a series of qualified communicational and sectoral experiences in the background, BUILDIST aims a totally different point of view with the “meetings” concept. BUILDIST differs in its successful definitions for the problems which are not currently coming into question, but were existing for long periods of time and still remain unsolved. With this perspective, BUILDIST has the goal to fill the sector’s “real” needs and expectations, both at individual and corporate levels.
In BUILDIST, the sector’s new vision will be achieved by the shapers of the physical environment.