Culture and Creativity for the Western Balkans

New Adriatic Atlas

NEW ADRIATIC ATLAS is developed under the “Culture and Creativity for the Western Balkans (CC4WBs)” project. CC4WBs is funded by the European Union and it aims to foster dialogue in the Western Balkans by enhancing the cultural and creative sectors for increased socio-economic impact.

APSS REinFORCE / Lustica Tunnels / Post-military resources rethought

This is the APSS spring school, part of our New Temporality project. The topic revolves around the RE-USE approach, and will explore how this approach resonates with ecological issues and climate change.

Dramaturgy of space: APSS for Manifesta 14 Prishtina

APSS has been a leader in the comparative study of three cities – Podgorica, Tirana, and Skopje. The study is conducted by the research platform of the APSS Institute in partnership with KONNTRA and the Kumbima Collective, as part of an overall Urban Study by the design and innovation office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati for Manifesta 14 Prishtina. The study follows a narrative approach to urban analysis, introducing both individual and shared categories to observe how public space is perceived and experienced by citizens.

Collateral Event of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia

Skirting the Center: Svetlana Kana Radevic on the Periphery of Postwar Architecture - Venice

The extensive built work, almost completely unknown internationally, of a celebrated Montenegrin and Yugoslav architect to be brought to light at the Biennale Architettura 2020. Skirting the Center, curated by Dijana Vučinić, Anna Kats and Ana Dobrašinović aims to significantly expand Radević’s representation within the architectural canon by exhibiting the highlights of her built work for the first time: the Hotel Podgorica (1964-1967) and the Hotel Zlatibor (1979-1981), which made socialist luxury broadly accessible to both locals and foreign visitors, who commingled on expansive terraces with picturesque views; the Petrovac Apartment Building (1968), with its sculptural façade and generous apartment plans; as well as the Monument to Fallen Fighters at Barutana (1980), a sculptural memorial landscape that commemorates local anti-fascist fighters.

MONTENEGRO at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale

Project Solana Ulcinj

MONTENEGRO at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale APSS has been one of the partners realizing Project Solana, Montenegro Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.