

INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION PIRANESI 2019
Portorož Auditorium
Duration: Saturday, 23rd November 2019
conference: 10:00, Portorož Auditorium
award ceremony and exhibition opening: 20:00, Monfort Gallery Portorož
Special guest of the event will be the Minister of Culture, Mag. Zoran Poznič.
TOPIC – Renovation: from old to new life
One of the most beautiful architectonic examples of the layering of history – the Basilica of Syracuse – proves that the new can outgrow the old without blurring the traces of the past. The new temple conveys the narrations of an ancient past to us. History does not always erase the past cutting previous ties and connections. Often, through the layering of layers and elements, the life of our heritage and our ancestors, written in architecture, is revealed. In this way, our ties with space and time remain alive, forging our identity and at the same time enabling us to evolve and develop.
The question we ask ourselves is how to coexist with this past. How to feel it, recognize it, and value it? How to live with it today when times have changed so much since its inception? And why do we need to keep it at all? How do we adapt to it, transform it, reinterpret it? There are always different paths and new points of view that emerge. These projects challenge the concept of time itself.
Maruša Zorec
SENIOR LECTURERS
Koen Baeyens, Basile Graux, Belgium
Giovanni Barberis, Dario Castellino, Valeria Cottino, Daniele Regis, Italy
Toni Gironès, Spain
Christian Jabornegg, András Pálffy, Austria
Hugh Strange, Great Britain
Dejan Todorović, Serbia
Rok Žnidaršič, Slovenia
YOUNG LECTURERS
Andraž Keršič, Slovenia
Adam Breznik, Timotej Jevšenak, Monika Vešligaj, Domen Ermenc, Pia Klančar, Slovenia
PROGRAM:
Wednesday, 20th November 2019
18:00 Tomos block, ground floor, Nazorjev trg 4, Koper
Koper optimism: temporary project space
- 10. – 31. 12. 2019
project group: dr. Boštjan Bugarič, Mateja Filipič, Tina Cotič, Tjaša Kogovšek, Rebeka Bratož Gornik, Toni Bračanov, Nataša Kocjančič, Sandra Ramirez, Kristina Montanič
in co-organization with KUD C3
Thursday, 21st November 2019
18:00 Piran City Library
Old houses in new shapes
Workshop Playful Architecture, Center of Architecture of Slovenia, mentor Špela Kuhar
19:30 Apollonius Palace
Renovation and maintenance of the stone floor
Exhibition
ABAKKUM Institute of Landscape, Culture and Art, Piran
On view until 24 November 2019, every day from 11:00 to 13:00 and 17:00. -19: 00
Friday, 22nd November 2019
18:30 Piran City Library
Houses tell stories.
Lecture in Slovene: prof. Maruša Zorec
Saturday, 23rd November 2019
18:30 Herman Pečarič Gallery
Architecture. Sculpture. Memory.
The Art of Monuments of Yugoslavia 1945-1991
Exhibition: Dessa Gallery
20:00 Monfort
Piranesi Exhibition Centre 2019: opening of the exhibition and award ceremony.
PDA socializing with the cuisine of chef Borut Jovan and music
22:30 Cafinho Bar After party
The exhibitions at the Monfort Exhibition Centre and at the Herman Pečarič Gallery will be on view until the 5th January 2020.