Pridružite nam se u ponedjeljak, 15. lipnja 2026., s početkom u 18 sati na predavanju Petre Čeferin: Too much is just right: Constructing (Modern) Architecture u sklopu programa Večeri u Orisu. Tema predavanja bit će specifičan pristup arhitekturi kroz primjer Vile Mairea u Finskoj, arhitekata Aine i Alvara Aalta. Partner predavanja je Arhitektonski fakultet u Zagrebu.

Predavanje će se održati na engleskom jeziku.

TOO MUCH IS JUST RIGHT: CONSTRUCTING (MODERN) ARCHITECTURE

The lecture is structured around the following formulation: Too Much is Just Right. For this formulation tells us something crucial about architecture, which can be summarised in two points.

Firstly, it signifies a certain approach to design, one characterised by doing too much (in terms of detailing, materials, elements) in order – hopefully, as there is always an element of risk involved – to turn this ‘too much’ into ‘just right.’ Just right in the sense that, as a result of this procedure, an architectural object is produced – and not simply a (decorated) utilitarian object. The lecture will show that Aino and Alvar Aalto developed this method to great effect, in particular in their Villa Mairea project of the late 1930s; and which they constructed as an architectural object.                                                                                         

Which brings us to my second point: the formula "too much is just right" encapsulates the very logical structure of an architectural object as such – of every architectural object in fact. Such an object is characterised by a certain 'too much’, which constitutes this object as 'just right' – as an architectural object, the appearance of architecture in the world.

                                                                                                                                                 - Petra Čeferin

Petra Čeferin is an architect, professor and research fellow at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana, where she teaches architectural theory and history. She has lectured and written extensively on modern and contemporary architecture in connection with contemporary philosophy. Her publications include Constructing a Legend: The International Exhibitions of Finnish Architecture 1957-1967 (SKS Publishing, 2003), Transforming Reality with Architecture: Finnish Case (Fondazione Bruno Zevi, 2008) and The Resistant Object of Architecture. A Lacanian Perspective (Routledge, 2021). She is also the co-founder and editor of the book series Theoretical Practice of Architecture.

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