Days of Oris: May 9 and 10, 2026

The international architectural festival Days of Oris will take place on May 9 and 10, 2026, on Saturday and Sunday, at the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall in Zagreb.

This two-day symposium, organized by the Oris House of Architecture, has for more than two decades brought together leading international and regional architects, urban planners, designers, students, and all those passionate about space, architecture, and the culture of building.

We invite you to attend lectures by leading international and regional architects, connect with colleagues and professionals from the field, exchange ideas and experiences, and enjoy an inspiring atmosphere and informal gatherings.

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This year’s speakers:

Al Borde (Ecuador)

Al Borde is an architectural studio based in Quito, Ecuador, founded in 2007 and led by David Barragán, Pascual Gangotena, Maríaluisa Borja, and Esteban Benavides, recipient of major international awards including the Swiss Architecture Award 2024, the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2013, and the Schelling Architecture Prize 2012. Their work has been presented at prestigious exhibitions and biennials, including the Venice Biennale, while the members of the studio are also active in the international academic sphere at universities such as Columbia, ETH Zurich, Tongji, and UNAM.

Vedran Mimica (USA)

Vedran Mimica, born in Zagreb in 1954, is an architect, professor of architecture and spatial planning at IIT in Chicago, and an internationally recognized educator who has taught at leading institutions including ETH, Columbia, MIT, and UCLA; he was the last dean of the renowned Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, served as an independent expert for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, co-founded the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, and has also worked as a curator of major international architectural exhibitions and biennials.

Emil Jurcan (Croatia)

Emil Jurcan is an architect who graduated in 2007 from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Ljubljana, worked as part of the Pula Group, with which he represented Croatia at the Venice Biennale in 2012, and today practices as an independent architect between Pula, Rijeka, and Trieste, focusing primarily on restoration and heritage conservation, while also engaging in theory, teaching, and professional and social activities within architectural associations.

Slavoj Žižek (Slovenia)

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, professor at the European Graduate School, and senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana, widely regarded as one of the most prominent contemporary thinkers in the fields of philosophy, ideology, and dialectical materialism; his more recent works include Quantum History: A New Materialist Philosophy (2025), Zero Point (2025), and Christian Atheism: How to Be a Real Materialist (2024), while his key earlier books include Less Than Nothing (2012) and The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989).

AHAKNAP / SAAHA (BiH, Norway)

AHAKNAP is an architectural studio founded in Sarajevo in 2010 by Adnan Harambašić and Kenan Brčkalija. Today, together with the SAAHA studio, which also operates in Norway, their internationally recognized work spans a wide range of projects—from urban studies and large-scale programmatic concepts to bridges, infrastructure solutions, and smaller architectural interventions—while the two studios together bring together 20 professionals from seven countries and emphasize interdisciplinary collaboration as a foundation for innovation.

Dejan Miljković (Serbia)

Dejan Miljković, born in Belgrade in 1967, is an architect and full professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Belgrade, active in the fields of cultural, commercial, and residential architecture as well as heritage restoration; he is the author of numerous realized buildings in Belgrade, the recipient of important professional awards in Serbia and abroad, his work has been presented at many international exhibitions, and since 2024 he has also been a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Dietmar Feichtinger (Austria)

Dietmar Feichtinger is an Austrian architect who moved to Paris in 1989 after graduating from the Graz University of Technology and founded Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes in 1994, a studio internationally recognized for its diverse architectural work and especially for its outstanding bridge designs, including the access walkway to Mont Saint-Michel, the Three Countries Bridge over the Rhine, the Passerelle de la Paix in Lyon, and the Aldilonda seaside promenade in Bastia; he is also active as a university professor and has taught at the Vienna University of Technology since 2023.

Yosuke Hayano, MAD Architects  (China)

Yosuke Hayano is a Japanese architect from Aichi and a first-class registered architect in Japan who oversees the entire architectural design process at MAD—from initial concept to final realization—and is responsible for shaping the studio’s distinctive, site-specific architectural language; he has received several major awards for his work and has also served as a visiting lecturer at respected academic institutions in Japan and London.

Reinier de Graaf, OMA (Netherlands)

Reinier de Graaf, born in Schiedam in 1964, is a Dutch architect and writer, a partner at OMA and co-founder of its research think tank AMO, also known as the author of Four Walls and a Roof, architect, verb., and the novel The Masterplan, and he lives in Amsterdam.

Maroje Mrduljaš (Croatia)

Maroje Mrduljaš is an architectural theorist, critic, curator, and educator who graduated from and earned his PhD at the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb; he has contributed to numerous important publications, exhibitions, urban studies, and architectural projects, lectured at distinguished international institutions, received several professional awards for his work, and currently serves as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Zagreb and in the Urban Studies programme at the University of Rijeka.

3×15 (Croatia)

ARGU Studio

ARGU studio is a young architectural practice based in Zagreb, founded in 2019 under the leadership of architect Marko Gusić, and has established itself primarily through competition work, clear concepts, and a strong sense of spatial proportion and context; in recent years, it has achieved several notable successes, including first prizes for the Celje Passenger Centre and the Brda Sports and Recreation Centre, while the studio’s development has also been significantly shaped by Matija Brnetić, Izabela Salopek, and Irma Šmuc, whose and Gusić’s professional paths were strongly influenced by their work at njiric+ arhitekti.

Prostorne taktike

Prostorne taktike is an architectural and urban planning office founded in 2017 by Luka Cvitan and Antonia Cvitan Vuletić, recognized for its innovative, sustainable, and socially responsible approach, as well as for its interdisciplinary collaboration on projects in public space, landscape, culture, healthcare, and infrastructure, with standout award-winning works including the bridge over Foša in Trogir, the Acute Medicine Centre in Split, and the Sloboština Kindergarten in Zagreb.

Studio PLOCA

Studio PLOCA is a Zagreb-based studio founded in 2022 by Hana Marisa Mohar and Frane Stančić as a platform connecting architecture, design, object-making, and small-scale construction, with a primary focus on the renovation and transformation of existing buildings; its projects are developed through direct engagement with materials and construction, further enriched by the founders’ international experience from Rotterdam, work in renowned architectural offices, and teaching practice.