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Oris (magazine)
''Oris'' is a Croatian architecture magazine. The publisher describes it as a 'Magazine for Architecture and Culture'. Overview ''Oris'' has appeared bi-monthly since 1998 and covers the media space of Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The magazine is published in Slovenian/English and Croatian/English editions., with topics covering the entire range of architecture. The magazine introduces an international cross-section of projects with an emphasis on works from the region. In addition to architecture, a separate section covers topics on art in general, such as photography or event-art, often with illustrations of connections with the conventional understanding of the term "architecture". Advertising is concentrated in a section on the beginning of every issue, so as not to disturb the flow of reading. The publisher has been Arhitekst since 1999. The company also organises the annual 'Oris-days' – two-day symposiums with lectures by architects from all over the wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatia
, image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg , anthem = "Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland") , image_map = , map_caption = , capital = Zagreb , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , official_languages = Croatian , languages_type = Writing system , languages = Latin , ethnic_groups = , ethnic_groups_year = 2021 , religion = , religion_year = 2021 , demonym = , government_type = Unitary parliamentary republic , leader_title1 = President , leader_name1 = Zoran Milanović , leader_title2 = Prime Minister , leader_name2 = Andrej Plenković , leader_title3 = Speaker of Parliament , leader_name3 = Gordan Jandroković , legislature = Sabor , sovereignty_type ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, and the Adriatic Sea to the southwest. Slovenia is mostly mountainous and forested, covers , and has a population of 2.1 million (2,108,708 people). Slovenes constitute over 80% of the country's population. Slovene, a South Slavic language, is the official language. Slovenia has a predominantly temperate continental climate, with the exception of the Slovene Littoral and the Julian Alps. A sub-mediterranean climate reaches to the northern extensions of the Dinaric Alps that traverse the country in a northwest–southeast direction. The Julian Alps in the northwest have an alpine climate. Toward the northeastern Pannonian Basin, a continental climate is more pronounced. Ljubljana, the capital and largest city of Slovenia, is geogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bosnia And Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and Herzegovina borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to the north and southwest. In the south it has a narrow coast on the Adriatic Sea within the Mediterranean, which is about long and surrounds the town of Neum. Bosnia, which is the inland region of the country, has a moderate continental climate with hot summers and cold, snowy winters. In the central and eastern regions of the country, the geography is mountainous, in the northwest it is moderately hilly, and in the northeast it is predominantly flat. Herzegovina, which is the smaller, southern region of the country, has a Mediterranean climate and is mostly mountainous. Sarajevo is the capital and the largest city of the country followed by Banja Luka, Tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vedran Mimica
Vedran Mimica (born 1954 in Zagreb) is a Croatian architect and educator who teaches at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is known for being the last director of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"N ..., Netherlands, from 2002–2012. References External links * * 1954 births Living people Architects from Zagreb Croatian expatriates in the Netherlands Date of birth missing (living people) Illinois Institute of Technology faculty {{Croatia-architect-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Podrecca
Boris Podrecca (born 30 January 1940 in Belgrade) is a Slovenes, Slovene-Italy, Italian architect and urban designer living in Vienna, Austria. Podrecca is considered by some critics a pioneer of postmodernism. With some of his early works, such as the neuro-physiological institute at Stahremberg Palace (1982), he took a new, more tolerant attitude towards historical architectural forms. Biography He was born in Belgrade, Serbia (then in Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia), to a Slovenes, Slovene father and a Serbs, Serb mother. His father was a Slovene immigrant from the Italy, Italian border region known as Julian March (Venezia Giulia), who had fled to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in order to escape persecution from the Italian Fascism, Italian Fascist regime. His original Slovene surname, Podreka, had been Italianization, Italianized to Podrecca in the early 1930s. After World War II, the family moved to Trieste, Italy, where Boris attended a Slovene language elementary school. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonči Žarnić
Tonči is a Croatian and Slovene masculine given name used as a diminutive form of Anton, Antonij and Antonijo in Croatia and Slovenia. It is sometimes spelled Tonci in Croatia where it is sometimes a diminutive form of Antonio. Notable people with this name include the following: *Tonči Bašić (born 1974), Croatian footballer *Tonči Boban (born 1971), Croatian footballer *Tonči Gabrić (born 1961), Croatian footballer *Tonči Gulin (born 1938), Croatian footballer *Tonči Huljić (born 1961), Croatian musician, songwriter and music producer *Tonći Kukoč (born 1990), Croatian footballer and nephew of Toni Kukoč * Tonči Martić (born 1972), Croatian former footballer *Tonči Matulić (born 1966), Croatian Roman Catholic priest *Tonći Mujan (born 1995), Croatian footballer *Tonči Peribonio (born 1960), Croatian team handball player * Tonći Pirija (born 1980), Croatian footballer *Tonči Restović (born 1977), Croatian darts player *Tonči Stipanović (born 1986), Croati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miranda Veljačić
Miranda Veljačić (born 1976, Zagreb) is a Croatian architect, researcher and cultural worker. She is co-founder, coordinator and current president of ''Platforma 9,81'' one of the longest lasting NGOs focused on architectural research and the practice around alternative and youth culture, activism, urbanism and heritage of modenity. Veljačić was an editor of Oris and '' Čovjek i prostor'' two main Croatian architecture magazines. In 2015 she represented Croatia at the Venice Biennale of Architecture together with Dinko Peračić, Emina Višnić, and Slaven Tolj. Biography In 1999, when she was still a student, Veljačić, Dinko Peračić and Marko Sančanin founded an association for architectural research in Zagreb under the name Platform 9,81 as a result of their work with European Architecture Students Assembly. Miranda Veljačić graduated from the Architectural faculty in Zagreb in 2002. Since 2003 she lives and works in Split, with her husband Dinko Peračić ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Establishments In Croatia
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The ''Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the United States House of Representatives, House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster (1998), Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 February 1998 Afghanistan earthquake, Afghanistan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Architecture Magazines
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings or other structures. The term comes ; ; . Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements. The practice, which began in the prehistoric era, has been used as a way of expressing culture for civilizations on all seven continents. For this reason, architecture is considered to be a form of art. Texts on architecture have been written since ancient times. The earliest surviving text on architectural theories is the 1st century AD treatise ''De architectura'' by the Roman architect Vitruvius, according to whom a good building embodies , and (durability, utility, and beauty). Centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bi-monthly Magazines
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