Curator: Andrej Strehovec
(05–12.05.2026)
Tuesday, 05. 05. 2026.
18.00 OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION
18.30 GUIDED TOUR THROUGH THE EXHIBITION
Guide: Andrej Strehovec
→ Club RTS, Hilandarska 2
Curators/organizers: gallery DESSA, organizing committee PDA, Andrej Strehovec – national Piranesi selector, BINA: Danica Jovović Prodanović, Jelena Ivanović Vojvodić, Ružica Sarić
National selector: Andrej Strehovec
Students’ selectors: Bojana Pašajlić, Slobodan Jović, Jelena Bogosavljević
Belgrade International architecture Week (BINA), Piran days of architecture (PDA), Gallery DESSA and selector Andrej Strehovec present the international architecture exhibition Piranesi Award 2025.
The exhibition presents a curation from the architectural selection featuring 50 international built projects by architects, as well as student projects from Serbia, nominated by national curators and selectors for student works from eleven (11) European countries (Austria, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro), all realized in the last two years.
The international jury awarded the prize and recognitions:
2025 Piranesi Award:
House and beeyard | Balaton Uplands, Hungary | 2024 | Architect: Péter Szabó, Emese Galamb (OKKA architects);
2025 Piranesi Honorable Mention
Centre for Creative Industries and Innovations “Ložionica” & The House of eGovernment | Belgrade, Serbia | 2025 | Architects: Anđela Karabašević Sudžum, Vladislav Sudžum (AKVS architecture);
2025 Piranesi Honorable Mention
Cemetery Ankaran | Ankaran, Slovenia | 2024 | Architects: Uroš Rustja, Primož Žitnik, Mina Hiršman, Mateo Zonta (VOID architecture; architecture) and Ana Kučan, Luka Javornik, Danijel Mohorič (studio AKKA; landscape architecture);
2025 Piranesi Student Honorable Mention
The Longhouse | Jesenice, Slovenia | 2024-2025 | Student: Ela Grasselli | Mentors: Prof. Maruša Zorec, Doc. Uroš Rustja;
In this sixth season for Serbia at the Piran Days of Architecture (PDA), the Serbian student selection is included for the fifth time. The PDA is an international event with one of the longest traditions in the world and has been organized every pre-last Saturday in November in the seaside towns of Piran and Portorož in Slovenia, since 1983.
The purpose of the conference is to evaluate current architectural trends and to present the most innovative ideas of architectural and spatial production in the region of Central Europe. The PDA Conference presents and promotes contemporary high-quality contextual architecture and cultural diversity.
In this 35th season of the award for the Piranesi Prize, the Slovenian-Serbian architect and critic Andrej Strehovec, in the role of national selector for Serbia, selected four architectural projects, realized by Serbian authors in the last two years:
– Centre for Creative Industries and Innovations “Ložionica” & The House of eGovernment | Belgrade, Serbia | 2025 | Architects: Anđela Karabašević Sudžum, Vladislav Sudžum (AKVS architecture);
– Futro House | Parcani, Opština Sopot, Serbia | 2023 | Architects: INKA studio projektni tim (Marina Lazović, Predrag Ignjatović, Zoran Lazović, Dunja Nedeljković);
– Hisar Fortress Revitalization | Prokuplje, Serbia | 2024 | Architects: Riste Dobrijević;
– Business Center “Revolucija” | Beograd, Serbia | 2025 | Architects: Zabriskie Studio;
»In Serbia’s sixth season at the Piranesi Days of Architecture, the conference thematized the neutrality and bias of architecture, while the award and accompanying exhibitions presented local, regional, and global themes within the framework of a top-tier international architectural event that has been consistently developing since 1983.
This year’s national selection for Serbia consists mostly of projects that define and mark public and urban space, along with one smaller weekend house, each of which—in its own context and through its authorial materialization—represents a pinnacle of architectural achievement.
The presented projects fulfill the high criteria for the international Piranesi Award: thoughtful placement in the urban and natural environment; spatial and design compatibility with the context; modern, innovative spatial planning; respect for natural and cultural heritage; contemporary understanding of traditional and autochthonous architectural elements; innovative details; carefully selected colors, materials, textures and lighting.
The presented architectural projects demonstrate the exceptional abilities of Serbian architects and the ambition of their clients to leave a high-quality, enduring architectural legacy—whether in urban space, historical heritage, or the natural environment. Each of these realizations, through architectural and engineering mastery, represents above-standard quality in contemporary Serbian architecture. For the first time, the Piranesi Honorable Mention has also been given to a project by an author from Serbia.« Andrej Strehovec
