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ess of issuing permits and the Chamber should be on
an equal footing with it in prevention of unauthorised
designing, which is not the case at the present.
Permanent Professional Improvement – it has been discussed
so much within circles of Croatian architects, architects
are running after scores...What is the purpose
of PPI?
The purpose of Permanent Professional Improvement
is for architects to gain knowledge about regulations
as well as new materials, technology, art and theory,
through a continual lifelong education. Our system of
professional improvement is based upon European experiences,
where it has been already performed for
years. Here, I should point out that we are, in relation to
some old members of EU, like Italy and Austria, ahead
of them. They haven’t even started with it yet. This is the
way to prepare Croatian architects for the moment of
joining Croatia to the European community and make
them compatible with their European colleagues in acquiring
the European Architect Licence.
Interview
Projekt “Ravnice” Helene Knifić-Schaps i Marija Volovića /
The project “Ravnice“ of Helena Knifić-Schaps and Mario
Volović
When talking about compatibility with EU, we know that
according to the Bologna Process for Architecture there
is the 1st grade of three years studying program. Aren’t
you afraid that in practice it will become “an associate
degree in architecture“?
No, because in present education system we are lacking
such professionals with such degrees. The only real
question is what they are going to know after three
years? In order to find that out, the Architectural Class
initiated cooperation with the Faculty of Architecture
in Zagreb, Croatian Academy for Science and Art and
experienced leaders of design studios to establish what
real needs of Croatian market are. The Chamber will
not licence associate degree architects but only graduated
architects, which is absolutely in the line with the
Council of European Architects.
How do you coordinate your commitments in the Chamber
with your every day working routine?
Bearing on mind that I have been in architecture already
for thirty years, I did consider myself able to take
one more job which satisfies me in a different way than
my primary occupation, giving me an opportunity to
have a broader context of my profession. I had founded
my office at times when it was truly rare thing to do.
The quality of work, which my colleague Mario Volović
and I rendered, earned a trust of investors who regularly
came back to us. We do not restrain from public
bidding, too, which again is a kind of detachment
from everyday issues and opens new creative spheres
of freedom.
You designed “BP Club“ a cult Zagreb place for jazz
fans, whose owner and manager is famous world vibraphone
player Boško Petrović?
This was one of my the most interesting cooperation’s, to
make a space in which an individual will not feel alone
even if there is nobody there at all. Together with the
contribution of late Miroslav Šutej, a painter and academic,
I hope we did succeed.
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