Spotlight Award: TEN Zurich / Belgrade
This lecture introduces TEN and its approach to architectural practice as a form of prototyping—an evolving mode of work shaped by shifting cultural, ecological, and technological conditions. Operating at the intersection of innovation and exploration, TEN treats research, experimentation, and collaboration as core drivers of both design and process.
Conceived as a kind of record label, TEN develops new formats for interdependent work groups and produces building prototypes, urban propositions, algorithmic design investigations, and material research in collaboration with a broad network of partners, institutions, and clients. Across these efforts, the practice advances the principle that value is an outcome of sustained design effort—one that can help shape new social, spatial, and material realities.
Ognjen Krašna and Nemanja Zimonjić are architects, lecturers, and educators based in Zurich and Belgrade. They have lectured, taught, and served as guest critics at architecture schools across Europe, and their work has been exhibited and published internationally. They are cofounders of TEN, an architectural practice recognized for experimental work in affordable construction, models of living, and exploratory design methods.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
This program is made possible through the generous support of the Betty R. and George F. Pierce Jr., FAIA, Fund; the William B. Coleman Jr. Colloquium Fund for Architecture; and the Wm. W. Caudill Lecture Series Fund.