Hrvoje Njirić
Principal, njiric+ arhitekti and Tenured Professor, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy, University of Split, Croatia
Hrvoje Njirić
Last updated: April 10, 2024 Zagreb, Croatia
Hrvoje Njirić is also Professor of Architecture at the University of Split, Croatia (since 2007) and was the Frank Gehry Chair at the University of Toronto, Canada (2012-13). He was Professor of Architecture at the Graz University of Technology, Austria and Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, Spain. He has been a guest professor at AF Ljubljana, Slovenia; Facoltà di Architettura, Ferrara, Italy; Arkitektskolen Aarhus, Denmark and Facoltà d’Architettura di Trieste, Italy.
He was a visiting critic at Bauhaus University (HAB), Weimar, Germany; ETSAB Barcelona, Spain; Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria; AA School of Architecture, London, UK; ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Strathclyde University of Glasgow, UK; Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Southeast University of Nanjing, China and the William Lyon Somerville Visiting Lecturer at the University of Calgary, Canada.
Hrvoje Njirić studied architecture at the University of Zagreb, and established njirić+njirić arhitekti in 1990 in Zagreb and Graz, with partner Helena Njirić. He gained acknowledgement in the 1990s with projects developed by njiric+njiric arhitekti, including schemes for Europan (3 first prizes) and Slovenian projects for Baumaxx and McDonalds which were widely published and awarded. He has been Principal of njirić+ arhitekti since 2001.
njirić+ arhitekti regards architecture to be much more than a physical definition of its boundaries or a formal assemblage of building materials. Its non-physical aspects are about phenomena of contemporary society and mass culture.