Piran Days of Architecture 2024

You are kindly invited to the 41st international conference Piran Days of Architecture, which will take place on Saturday, 23 November 2024, from 10 am to 6 pm at the Auditorium Portoroz. The 2024 Piranesi Awards will be presented at 6 pm, followed by the traditional opening of the Piranesi 2024 exhibition at 8 pm in the Monfort Exhibition hall. The theme of this year's PDA is Ethics and Responsibility.

The programme starts on Friday, 22 November: at 14:30 there will be lectures in the ZAPS Auditorium, and in the evening at 18:30 the PDA exhibitions will open.

Ethics and Responsibility

A constant presence in our lives, crises serve as a reminder that there are limits to our living environment. Changes in space, both as natural processes and as human interventions, carry long-term consequences impacting the quality of people's lives. The ideology of neoliberalism, founded on individualism and selfishness while promoting competition and greed, is the mark of our time. As much is also reflected in space, seen by many as an opportunity for extraordinary financial gain first and foremost. The architects of Modernism strove for a different, more just world that would ensure decent living conditions for everyone, not just for the privileged elite. As a result, their architecture was a synonym for optimism, solidarity, and universal progress, while contemporary architecture is shaping to be a material expression of the increasing inequality. The drastic loss of respect suffered by the architectural profession in recent decades is therefore understandable. Art and architecture are more important today than they have ever been before. But only when they adopt an ethical stance to challenge the mentality which puts profit before people.

Aleš Vodopivec

Speakers and Piranesi jury

› Aleš Vodopivec, Slovenia
› Marta Peris, José Toral, Peris + Toral Architects, Spain
› Zsolt Gunther, Katalin Csillag, 3H Architects/3H ÉPÍTÉSZIRODA, Hungary
› András Pálffy, Jaborneg&Pálffy, Austria
› Marina Tabassum, Marina Tabassum Architects, Bangladesh

Young speakers

› Anja Vidic, Jure Grohar, Vidic Grohar Architects, Slovenija

Student presentations

Ljubljana Faculty of Architecture

> Blaž Parežnik, Nadej Rešek • design studio Glažar

> Miha Jereb, Matic Barlovič • design studio Perović

> Maja Suhorepec • design studio Zorec

Please, note that number of seats in Auditorium is limited. We kindly suggest visitors to reserve the entrance to the conference by buying the ticket in advance. In case of the sold-out conference the entrance priority will be given to pre-payed tickets.