Nominator: Ena Kukić

AN ARCHITECTURAL DIARY - SANIČANI FISHPOND
Rooted in a century-long family connection to the Saničani fishpond near Prijedor, this project reinterprets a historically significant yet forgotten landscape in Republika Srpska, B&H. Rather than a conventional architectural presentation of plans and sections, it is an interdisciplinary artistic research that uses text, photography, sound, video, models and installations to position architecture as a tool for reading history, ecology and collective memory. Developed through collaboration with more than 110 participants (students, biologists, archaeologists, architects, artists and local residents) the work emerged through dialogue with those who live and understand the site. It proposes the “monument” not as an object, but as a catalyst for regeneration and shared awareness. The exhibition demonstrates that architecture, beyond narrow engineering frames, can affirm itself as art. Architecture then is “not façade but truth, not imitation but trace, not consumption but memory,  not an object”, but an open process that belongs to everyone.