ZAGREB SALON - ARCHITECTURE is a yearly exhibition of contemporary visual art. In architecture, this is the most important art event where Croatian architects have the chance to show the achievements of contemporary production at the national level. As one of the major cultural events in the city and the entire country, with a long history and great reputation, Zagreb Salon has always been financially supported by the Administration of the City of Zagreb and the Ministry of Culture. Operational management and the responsibility for the organization and expenses of the Zagreb Salon of Architecture fall under the authority of the Organizational Board. Apart from CAA and ZAS representatives, other members of the Organizational Board are usually representatives of the City of Zagreb Office for Culture, Ministry of Culture, Croatian Association of Visual Artists, Croatian Association of Visual Artists and Artists in Applied Arts, Croatian Designer Society, and the Architects’ Section of CCACE.
The right of participation at the 44th Zagreb Salon have all the authors and groups of authors who are Croatian citizens and all authors and groups of authors who are foreign citizens, but whose work has been designed or realized in Croatia. Authors are invited in a public announcement published in printed and electronic media.
Zagreb Salon - Architecture is a visual art event adjudicated by a jury, which means that an expert commission selects the entries. The selected works are entered for Salon prizes, which are awarded by the Competition Jury, appointed by the Organizational Board.
At two previous Salons, the Organizational Board entrusted an International Commissioner, renowned in international cultural and artistic circles and in the field of architectural criticism and publishing, with the role of the Competition Jury.
Thus the 38th Zagreb Salon was adjudicated by Italian architect, theorist, and architectural critic Stefano Boeri, at that time editor-in-chief of the Domus magazine, today editor-in-chief of Abitare and senior lecturer at the Polytechnic University in Milan.
The last, 41st Zagreb Salon was adjudicated by Manuel Gausa Navarro, Spanish architect, theoretician and critic, director of the Quaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme, editor in the renowned publishing house and architectural and research office ACTAR Barcelona, and also one of the founders of Actar Architecture and Actar Editorial.
By this selection of international commissioners who also wrote comprehensive theoretic and analytic articles about contemporary Croatian architecture for the Salon catalogue, subsequently translated into several languages and simultaneously published in foreign literature and magazines, CAA’s goal was to enhance the international importance and echo of the Zagreb Salon that is traditionally termed the central visual art event at the national level, at least as far as architecture is concerned. The purpose was to examine the position of Croatian architectural culture within the common cultural product of contemporary European architecture.
The 44th Zagreb Salon - Architecture will be held from October 1st to October 25th 2009. The Salon Topic is contemporary architectural production from the period 2006 – 2009. The organizer of the 44th Zagreb Salon of Architecture is Croatian Architects’ Association (UHA).
As the commissioner of the 44th Zagreb Salon CAA has invited Hans Ibelings, world-famous architecture historian from Rotterdam and one of the founders of the bimonthly magazine A10 new European architecture, today its editor-in-chief and publisher, which has more than twenty-five thousand subscribers throughout Europe.
Hans Ibelings
(Rotterdam 1963)
architectural historian, editor/publisher of A10 new European architecture, a bimonthly pan-European magazine
1982-1988 study of Art History and Archeology, University of Amsterdam
1989-2000 curator at the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam
1996-2000 editor Yearbook Architecture in the Netherlands
1990-2000 teaching assignment Technical University Eindhoven
2000-present independent architectural critic and curator of exhibitions
2000-2002 architectural critic of De Volkskrant, a Dutch daily newspaper
2004 founder of A10 new European architecture, together with Arjan Groot
2005-2007 visiting professor architectural history, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
2007/2008 tutor of the masterclass Tradition Today, Academy of Architecture, Rotterdam
2008 tutor of masterclass Small Intervention, Big Impact, Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade
selection of publications:
Supermodernism: Architecture in the Age of Globalisation, Rotterdam 1998, revised edition 2003
The Artificial Landscape: Contemporary Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture in the Netherlands, Rotterdam 2000
Unmodern Architecture: Contemporary Traditionalism in the Netherlands, Rotterdam 2004
New European Architecture 0708, Amsterdam 2007
New European Architecture 0809, Amsterdam 2009
