Days of Architecture are the biggest architectural festival in Bosnia&Herzegovina, and one of the biggest in the region of South Eastern Europe. This year's festival marks 15th edition of the Days of Architecture and first one since it became biennale two years ago. The festival will take time in period of 15-22nd of September in Sarajevo, with curators Hubert Klumpner and Michael Walczak, and it will host many architects from Spain, UK, Norway, the Netherlands, Croatia, Montenegro, France, Germany, USA and Bosnia&Herzegovina. Besides lectures and presentations, the Days of Architecture will host many exhibitions, panels and gatherings of architects, designers and constructors. Very important aspect of this year's edition is the promotion of the first architectural guide of Sarajevo, published by Berlin-based DOM publishers.
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Official poster of the Days of architecture 2021
The Days of architecture is the biggest architectural event in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and after last year's online edition, it is back live in country's capital - Sarajevo. The festival will take place between September 17th and 19th, starting on Friday in front of the Youth theatre at the Culture square by official opening and exhibition installation "Adaptable living spaces, episode 1: COVID-19" and series of architectural photography. The second day of the festival is reserved for lectures of architects from all over Europe, including Hubert Klumpner (ETH Zurich), Roland Krebs (Superwien, Austria), Michael Walczak (ETH Zurich), but also Mat Barnes (CAN, UK), Melike Altinisik architects (Turkey), NFO arhitekti (Croatia). After all presentations panel discussions will take place in order for our guests and audience to make a conclusion and reflect on today's impact of and on architecture. The third and last day will start with the presentation of Future Architecture Platform (FAP) of which the Days of architecture became part of. Later on the main stage guests will be able to enjoy lectures of Jan Boelen (Lithuania), creators of Serbian pavilion at the Venice biennale, Relja Ivanić (Serbia), but also to watch a movie called Symmetries, documentary about the Days of architecture. After the Days of architecture Fresh+Bold award is given to the best regional architectural influence, audience can watch a block of local architects' lectures: Nermina Zagora and Dina Šemić, Bernard Bostijančić and Studio Trokut. During the festival, students of architecture at the University of Sarajevo will participate in Studio Mobile workshop whose results will also be presented at the Festival.
Last December we co-produced (video soon available online!) a live curated online exhibition, a new concept we had fun exploring together with the great Delta Lab (Rijeka, Croatia) team. Online live-curated Fiume Fantastika: Phenomena of a city stepped up from a standard Zoom lecture and introduced us to a new and more dynamic concept. Fiume Fantastika was the first online exhibition of the new Nights of Architecture format.
