Young Talent 2025 Exhibition in Zagreb
November 5, 2025
November 14, 2025
The EUmies Awards Young Talent 2025 exhibition embarks on its tour after being presented as a Collateral Event at the Venice Biennale, where it remains on view until November. This time, the exhibition will be hosted at the at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Zagreb, continuing its European journey and offering new audiences the chance to engage with the most promising emerging architectural talent. It has been organised together with the Croatian Association of Architects (AHO).
All photos by Photos ©Marko Ercegović
The jury formed by Maibritt Dammann, Ana Dana Beros, Jason O’Shaughnessy, Konstantinos Pantazis, and Daliana Suryawinata, reviewed 280 submitted projects from 107 schools across 92 cities in 37 countries.
They evaluated drawings, videos, and project briefs, ultimately selecting 35 projects to receive awards: 3 winners, 9 finalists, and 23 shortlisted projects. Among these shortlisted works, there is KO-101 – Affordable Heterotopia by Sandi Terzić from the Faculty of Civil engineering, Architecture and Geodesy of the University of Split. Another project from the same school was also nominated together with two from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Zagreb.
The exhibition opens at the at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Zagreb, on 5 November at 12:00 with the participation of:
Mia Roth-Čerina, President of the Croatian Association of Architects
Frano Petar Zovko, Croatian Association of Architects
Ana Dana Beroš, YT 2025 juror
Collective housing
KO-101 – Affordable Heterotopia
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Sandi Terzić
The unsustainability of an economic model based on private capital interests is architecturally reflected in suburban sprawl and housing commodification. Such a model demands an antithetic manifesto: productive and dense co-housing settlement for a resilient society built on values, not profit.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Written in stone
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Mira Tomić
Space was found in the absence. Resting on leave.
Violently clean stone cliffs and fields of the Brač quarries preserve the memory of the island’s proud history. In search for the most ethical method of rehabilitation, these monuments of changed, but mighty nature are given back to the islanders.EUmies Awards Young Talent
Collective housing
The End of the Two Villas by the Kupa River
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Fran Hodalj
Two villas (visually similar, yet different regarding their functions) are to become ruins in their
fragile environment. This project questions the relation to architectural heritage – for the served
villa the approach taken was the adaptive reuse, while for the servant villa it was the non-use.EUmies Awards Young Talent
Infrastructure
The Seed Bank, Gornja Bucica
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Josip Fabijanac
Along the local road, I find an invisible layer of geological processes: sinkholes. By superimposing technologically sophisticated and technologically primitive systems, a structure of global character is created, an artifact in the landscape, an insurance policy for humanity’s survival.
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More information here and here.
Curator: Anna Sala (Fundació Mies van der Rohe)
Coordination: Croatian Association of Architects + Zagreb Architecture School + Fundació Mies van der Rohe
Mounting: AHO/CAA, Zagreb Architecture School
Surface: 100m2
Visitors: 1100
By presenting these works, the exhibition offers not just visual and spatial innovation, but also critical reflections on how young architects are challenging conventional narratives (of destruction, replacement, isolation) replacing them with ideas of care, continuity, regeneration, and collective agency.