BEAT dinner series is bimonthly dinner with access to sensational food and stimulating conversation. BEAT believes that every conversation counts and works to create inviting contexts that foster open dialogue. Each BEAT dinner is hosted at a remarkable Toronto restaurant. A highlight of this event is that a different VIP guest of honour will be invited to each dinner.
We are honoured that the featured guest of the upcoming BEAT Dinner will be Tina Gregoric.
Tina Gregoric
Tina Gregoric co-founded the architectural practice Dekleva Gregoric Architects together with her partner Aljosa Dekleva in Ljubljana, Slovenia, soon after completing her education at the Architectural Association in London. Alongside their architectural practice they are both intensively involved in reshaping approaches to architectural education. She has been lecturing and teaching at the AA in London, the FA in Ljubljana and UIAV in Venice among others, prior to teaching architectural design at University of Technology Graz, Austria from 2002-2004.
Since 2014 Tina has been a Full Professor of Architecture and Head of the Department of Architectural Typology at the Institute of Architecture and Design at University of Technology Vienna, Austria. Currently she is teaching in Toronto together with Aljosa as Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Designat John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture Landscape and Design at University of Toronto, therefore they recently moved to Toronto together with their son.
Tina graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana (2000) and later received post-graduate Master degree in Architecture with Distinction at the AA (2002). She is the co-author of the book Negotiate my boundary!, published by AA Publications and Birkhauser exploring mass-customization of collective housing, user participation and novel social scenarios. The book received intense professional attention, related particularly to the social models of sharing and co-habitation.
The award-winning practice Dekleva Gregoric architects attempts to pursue the concept of ‘research by design’ and ‘design by research’ through diverse projects, different scales and programs as well as diverse climates and localities. The Understanding of specific constrains and conditions of the context becomes the ultimate generative tool that aims to challenge the obvious. The user experience of architecture and participation continue to constitute the practice’s central objective.
Their built projects and research have received many international and national awards; among others, four nominations and one selection for the Mies van der Rohe Award, WAN House of the Year 2015 Award, Best architects 16 Award, and commendation in AR House Award 2015, by Architectural Review. In 2013 the practice was named Highly Commended at the 21 for 21 WAN AWARDS 2012 – a search for “the 21 architects for the 21st century. The initiative aims to highlight outstanding, forward-thinking people and organizations who have the demonstrable potential to be the next big thing in the architectural world.”
Since 2014 Tina and Aljosa are leading a distinctive design research defined as nanotourism, a participatory, locally oriented alternative to the current downsides of conventional tourism. Together with their research team at BIO50 - Biennial of Design they received the biennial’s highest honor – Best Collaboration Award. As curators of Slovenian national pavilion at Venice Architectural Biennale 2016 they addressed the topics of home and dwelling as current, critical social and environmental issues with [Home at Arsenale] - a curated library addressing the notions of home and dwelling performing within a 1:1 site-specific inhabitable spatial wooden structure. Alongside their architectural practice, they are intensively involved in reshaping approaches to architectural education. They lecture extensively presenting their practice and their research. They tend to continuously question the role of architecture in an attempt to improve our society.
Tickets will be available via Eventbrite starting November 7th.