Ivan Štraus
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Museum of Aviation (Belgrade), Ivan Štraus
Ivan Štraus is a Bosnian architect of Slovenian origin.[1]
Born in 1928, he started Architectural Studies in Zagreb in 1947 and graduated in 1958 from the technical faculty in Sarajevo. From 1952 he began making deals for participating architectural tenders. Since then he has won 30 major awards for architecture and has won many national and international tenders.
His Major Projects are:
- Unis towers in Sarajevo (United Investment and Trading Company)
- BH Electric Power Building
- Holliday Inn hotel in Sarajevo
- Museum of Aviation (Belgrade)
- Residential complexes of the Sun settlement, settlement Radojka Lakić, etc.
International architectural competition:
- 1964 - General Post Office and Ministry of Telecommunication, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia (with Z. Kovačević) - 1. place
- 1973 - National Opera in Sofia, Bulgaria (with H. Muhasilović) - 1. place
- 1987 - The Great Mosque in Oran, Algeria (with H. Muhasilović) - 1. place
He has exhibited both at home and on the international scene.
From 1984, he is a member of Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. On 2012, he became the foreign member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
He also issued a series of scientific books on architecture, among others:
- 15 years of Bosnian architecture - 1987.
- Architecture of Yugoslavia - 1991.
- Architects and barbarians - 1995.
- Architecture of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1945 to 1995
- 99 Architects of Sarajevo 1930 to 1990
References
- ↑ Beyond the Revolution The Architecture of Eastern Europe
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