ORIS AWARD FOR EXCEPTIONAL CREATIVE CONTRIBUTION TO CROATIAN ARCHITECTURE

STUDIO UP / LEA PELIVAN AND TOMA PLEJIĆ

Studio UP belongs to a precious group of architects, dedicated to an investigative approach to questions of space, and they direct their practice along a continuous development of original ideas. They appreciate current international tendencies and particular contextual conditions in their work, but always with a critical relation to the situations they are faced with. For these reasons, they are recognized as internationally relevant authors, winners of the European Union’s Mies van der Rohe Award for the best young architects in 2008, whereby Studio UP promote Croatian culture, as well as raise its standards. Their determination to discover new spatial concepts and ability to execute them without compromise rank Studio UP as authors who always take a step further from the familiar or acknowledged in their designs, thus contributing to the evolution of the architectural discipline.