SADAR + VUGA

Profile

SADAR+VUGA was founded by Jurij Sadar and Boštjan Vuga in 1996. Over the past two decades the company has been an incubator of critical European architectural practice focusing on open, innovative and integrated architectural design and urban planning.

The office has a forward-leaping and often critical approach, covering a wide spectrum of production from urban planning to interior design. The stimulation for its projects comes from visual, audial and textual information, from art and fashion, science and technology, allowing them to generate a sensitive and responsive environment we live in. The client base reflects the diversity of the office, ranging from municipal and central governments, private and national arts bodies, to local clients and international developers.

For its projects the office has been awarded numerous prizes, such as Bauwelt Prize, Iconic Award, Archmarathon Award, Piranesi award and has been nominated for Mies van der Rohe Award eight times.

Office’s best renowned built works are Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia, Entrance hall of the National Gallery of Slovenia, Football stadium and Multi-purpose sports hall Stožice, Air traffic control center Ljubljana and Cultural Center of EU Space Technologies Vitanje.

Solo exhibitions include: Slovenian Pavilion at Biennale di Venezia, Formula New Ljubljana in Barcelona and Prague. The office also took part in exhibition New Trends of Architecture in Europe and Asia Pacific, 6x Pack: Contemporary Slovenian Architecture. The office work is featured as part of the permanent collection at the Architekturmuseum der TU München and MAO Ljubljana.

The office’s work is published in monographs SADAR+VUGA: A Review, Formula New Ljubljana, DD17:Tendencies, 3D-2D:Adventures In and Out of Architecture.

Biography

Boštjan Vuga
Bostjan Vuga studied at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana and at the AA School of Architecture in London. In 1996 he founded SADAR+VUGA architectural office along with Jurij Sadar. 
Bostjan Vuga has taught at the Berlage Institute Rotterdam, the IAAC Barcelona, the Faculty of Architecture Ljubljana, TU Berlin and MSA Muenster. He was a visiting critic at AA London, the Bauhaus Kolleg in Dessau, the ETH in Zürich, Leopold-Franzens-Univeristaet Innsbruck, EIA Ecole D’ingenieurs et d’architectes Fribourg, the Academy of Visual Arts Vienna among others. He regularly lectures at architectural schools, conferences, and symposia in Slovenia and abroad. He publishes articles about current issues in architecture and urban planning. He edited several publications, among them the Plečnik 2007 issue for AB Architectural Bulletin and series of publications for TU Berlin. 

Boštjan Vuga participated as a co-curator at the Montenegro Pavilion, at the 14th Venice Biennale of Architecture , Venice 2014. 

Since 2014 he has been a president of the council of the MAO Museum of Architecture and Design of Slovenia. 

Jurij Sadar
Jurij Sadar graduated at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana (1987), and worked as an independent architect until 1993. From 1993 to 1997 he worked as assistant professor at the same faculty. He is the cofounder of architectural office SADAR+VUGA. 

He lectures at architectural schools, conferences and symposia in Slovenia and abroad, among others Piran Days of Architecture, SCI - ARCH Los Angeles, New trends of Architecture Tokyo and Melbourne, UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design Los Angeles, Skulptur Projekte Münster, Tsingula University Bejing, BauWelt Münich, Malta Design Week, Skopje Architecture Week, Kotor Architectural Summer School, Semaine Internationale d’architecture in Nancy and School for architecture Hunan University Changsha. 

Jurij Sadar is currently associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana.