Robert Potokar

Robert is an architect and heads the architectural office Ravnikar Potokar, which he founded with Vojteh Ravnikar, a longtime collaborator and co-author of several projects and competitions. Together with his co-authors, he received more than 25 first prizes in public competitions and carried out many projects, including: Center for the elderly Trnovo in Ljubljana, Center for the elderly Hodoš, Center for the elderly Idrija, Elementary school in Kamnik and Litija, Kolezija swimming pool in Ljubljana, Facilities in the nature reserve Škocjanski zatok near Koper and public space renovations of Škofja Loka and Ajdovščina.

With various groups of co-authors, he won several awards, among them: the Piranesi award in 1996 and 1998, the Piranesi award in 2004, the ZAPS golden pencil in 2007, 2008, 2015, 2019 and 2021, and the wooden icon in 2017. In 2018 and 2020, he won the award for urban space at the International Salon of Architecture in Novi Sad. At the 43rd International Salon of Architecture in Belgrade in 2021, he received an award in the guest category.

He has been co-creating the Central European architectural magazine Piranesi for twenty years, and since 2010 he has also been its editor-in-chief. In 2008, he and Špela Kuhar published the guide Let's see the city Ljubljana, and in 2020 the book Stories of Slovenian Architecture. In 2022, he published a book of his photographs, Personal Landscapes.

Since 2010, he has been a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Traffic Engineering and Architecture in Maribor, where in 2015 he obtained the title of assistant professor.

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