BOSTJAN VUGA, SADAR VUGA ARHITEKTI
Bostjan Vuga founded the architectural practice Sadar Vuga Arhitekti (SVA) jointly with Jurij Sadar in Ljubljana/Slovenia in 1996. Over the past years, they have specialised on open, innovative and holistic architectural design and urban planning, focussing on residential schemes, office buildings and city centres. Sadar Vuga Arhitekti has become one of Slovenia’s most successful and largest architecture firms.
The practice has been driven by a quest for quality, with a strong belief that forward-leaping architectural production contributes to our well-being and generates a sensitive and responsive development of the physical context we live in, broadening our imagination and stimulating our senses. The growing portfolio of built work ranges from innovative town planning to public space sculpture, from interactive new public buildings to interventions within older existing structures. SVA design extended living areas in residential buildings, guided by the culture and climate of a given specific location. Encompassing municipal councils and central governments, national and private arts bodies, multinationals as well as Slovenia’s best developers, the client base reflects the diversity of built and project experience.
One of its most spectacular early successes was the new building housing the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Ljubljana, finalised in 1999 and awarded the Trend Preis 2001, the ECCS Steel Design Award 2001 and the Bauwelt Preis 2001. Further realized projects are the central part of the National Gallery (2001), the recently completed residential buildings Condominium Trnovski Pristan and Apartment House Gradaška, which contribute to high-quality urban living on the edge of Ljubljana city centre. SVA have received numerous accolades, amongst others the Trend Prize for Special Results in Visual Creativity Ljubljana (2001, 2005 and 2006) and the ECCS Steel Design Award (2001 and 2003), as well as being repeatedly nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award (2001, 2003, 2005 and 2006) and the Marcus Prize for Architecture, Milwaukee (2007). SVA are in demand as speakers and exhibition participants worldwide.
With the "Formula New Ljubljana" – a collection of their own realisations and of urban planning studies –, the young architects are now also intervening in the political process. Sadar Vuga Arhitekti are of the opinion that architecture should not function as a mere piece of design, but rather as a way to shape social space. In their view, architecture thus plays an interactive social role. The architectural practice therefore champions a proactive role for architects, who should also shoulder public responsibility.
Bostjan Vuga studied architecture at the University of Ljubljana (until 1992) and the AA School of Architecture in London (1993 – 1995). In 2003, he was a studio tutor at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. Bostjan Vuga has been guest critic amongst others at the AA School of Architecture in London, the Bauhaus Kolleg in Dessau, the IAAC in Barcelona, the ETH in Zurich and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
Sadar Vuga ArhitektiImages of Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slowenia
Valid as of: 27.5.2008
