Milan Tomac

ABOUT

Milan Tomac was born in 1970 in Koper, Slovenia and he graduated from the Ljubljana Faculty of Architecture in 1998. In the same year he cofounded the architectural office Enota where he works as partner architect ever since. For his work in Enota he received many architectural awards, his work has been presented on numerous exhibitions and published in professional and broad interest publications all over the world. Milan lectures at architectural schools, conferences and symposiums in Slovenia and abroad. From 1998 to 2001 he was Assistant Professor at Ljubljana Faculty of architecture. With intention to promote the importance of architectural quality, he has been active as the member of several architectural award and architectural competition juries and member of some other formal and informal networks and events on architecture.

AWARDS

• European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture
• Mies van der Rohe Award (shortlisted)
• World Architecture Festival Award (winner)
• Plečnik Award (winner)

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE STUDIO

Enota was founded in 1998 with the ambition to create contemporary and critical architectural practice of an open type based on collective approach to development of architectural and urban solutions. Over the years Enota has been constantly developing and from its beginnings it has served as a creative platform for more than seventy architects. Enota is led by founding partners and principal architects Dean Lah and Milan Tomac. Constant changes and new complex situations in the world around us drive us to think about new architectural and urban solutions. In order to be able to produce answers to those new questions we believe it’s time to surpass the boundaries of conventional discipline set mainly by our cultural backgrounds. Enota’s team of architects focuses on research driven design of the environment where study of contemporary social organizations is interwoven with the use of new technologies to produce innovative and effective solutions. Enota’s solutions are strongly influenced by research, reinterpretation and development of social, organizational and design algorithms that derive from nature. The result is always a strong binding of the buildings with the environment that surrounds them.