This summer, DSCENE Magazine returns to Zagreb as a media partner for the 25th edition of Days of Oris, taking place on June 27 and 28, 2025, at the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall. Organized by Oris House of Architecture, the festival marks a quarter-century of discourse, experimentation, and connection between some of the most influential voices in global and regional architecture.
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The two-day event has long been more than a conference. It is a cultural moment, where conversations about design turn into debates about politics, ecology, and society. DSCENE will once again be on the ground, reporting on the presentations, encounters, and impressions that emerge in this charged and creative setting.
This year’s speaker list brings together global visionaries and regional pioneers. Kazuyo Sejima, co-founder of SANAA and recipient of the Pritzker Prize, headlines the program with her distinct spatial language that cuts through materiality and form to create spaces of calm provocation. Also presenting is Dorte Mandrup, whose work from the Arctic Circle to Berlin continues to ask difficult questions about climate, memory, and public experience.
The lineup includes RCR Arquitectes (Spain), known for their poetic integration of architecture into raw natural surroundings, and Snøhetta’s Jette Hopp, whose leadership within one of the world’s most forward-thinking practices spans global cultural projects and sustainable architecture.
From the region, Ivanišin.Kabashi.Arhitekti, Bevk Perović Arhitekti, and CADO Arhitekti bring deeply contextual approaches that rethink the relationships between architecture, territory, and narrative. Also joining the roster is Maroje Mrduljaš, the critic, writer, and curator whose contributions to architectural theory in the Balkans remain unmatched.
But beyond names and presentations, Days of Oris offers something more ephemeral, an atmosphere. It’s in the lobbies between lectures, the quiet note-taking during a particularly lucid slide, the chance conversations after dinner. As the festival marks 25 years, it continues to connect architecture not just to practice, but to lived experience.
Through exclusive interviews, photography, and dispatches from the venue, DSCENE will once again offer intimate access to the festival’s rhythm, capturing not just what was said on stage, but what made it matter. From Zagreb to our global audience, we’re proud to return to this gathering of minds and continue shaping the dialogue between space, people, and ideas.
To learn more visit www.daysoforis.com.
