Aleksander Ostan
Curator | Atelje Ostan Pavlin | Slovenia
Aleksander Saša Ostan is an architect, urban planner, writer, researcher, curator and professor at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana. He is an active member of ZAPS, DAL, DAP, DUPPS, Guiding architects and association Sestava. Together with Nataša Pavlin they run architectural and urban planning office Atelje Ostan Pavlin, where they explore wider aspects of living and architectural cultures in a comprehensive way, researching sustainable development and practice through building, all in the light of paradigmatic changes happening in architectural space and time.
Ostan is active both at home and abroad, he advocates a holistic, ethical and responsible approach to urban planning & design and architecture, ranging from large to small scales, integrating culture and nature, theory and practice, tradition and invention, global and local levels, renovations and new buildings. He also runs workshops and leads excursions, lectures at conferences, writes, leads juryes, designs exhibitions, practices drawing and photography etc. He is also author of numerous critical essays and articles in professional journals and books as well as recipient of international and national professional awards for projects and realisations (mostly with Atelje Ostan Pavlin, in the beginning with the Open Circle group).