Arch. Dean LAH

“Ptuj Performance Center (Dominican Monastery Restiration)”

2015 Mies van der Rohe Award-nomination

Award Enota:
Piranesi Award, shortlisted Piran, Slovenia, 2015 (Promenada Velenje)
WAN Awards, Transport 2015, longlisted London, United Kingdom, 2015 (Velenje Car Park)
Leaf Awards 2015, Urban Design of the Year, shortlisted London, United Kingdom, 2015 (Promenada Velenje)
Architizer A+ Awards, Parking Structures, jury winner New York, USA, 2015 (Velenje Car Park)
Plečnik Award, shortlisted Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2015 (Promenada, Velenje Car Park)
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award 2015, nomination Barcelona, Spain, 2015 (Ptuj Performance Center)
Piranesi Award, shortlisted Piran, Slovenia, 2014 (Ptuj Performance Center)
Golden Pencil 2014 Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2014 (Ptuj Performance Center)
Interior of the Year Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2014 (Ptuj Performance Center)
Leaf Awards 2014, Refurbishment of the Year, shortlisted Dusseldorf, Germany, 2014 (Ptuj Performance Center)
Plečnik Medal Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2014 (Ptuj Performance Center)
Architizer A+ Awards, Architecture + Preservation, jury winner New York, USA, 2014 (Ptuj Performance Center)
Architizer A+ Awards, Architecture + Preservation, popular choice winner New York, USA, 2014 (Ptuj Performance Center)
Architizer A+ Awards, Theatres & Performing Arts Centers, finalist New York, ZDA, 2014 (Ptuj Performance Center)
AIT Award, Public Building Education, special mention Frankfurt, Germany, 2014 (Ptuj Performance Center)
Plečnik Award, shortlisted Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2013 (Podčetrtek Sports Hall)
Architizer A+ Awards, Sports & Recreations Centers, finalist New York, USA, 2013 (Podčetrtek Sports Hall)
Piranesi Award, shortlisted Piran, Slovenia, 2012 (Podčetrtek Sports Hall)
Pool Vision 2012, Spa Category, 3rd place Lyon, France, 2012 (Wellness Orhidelia)
IOC/IAKS Award 2011, Silver Medal Cologne, Germany, 2011 (Podčetrtek Sports Hall)
IOC/IAKS Award 2011, Silver Medal Cologne, Germany, 2011 (Wellness Orhidelia)
Golden Pencil 2011 Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2011 (Podčetrtek Sports Hall)
International Architecture Award 2011 Dublin, Ireland, 2011 (Podčetrtek Sports Hall)
WAN 21 for 21 Award, highly commended Brighton, United Kingdom, 2011
Plečnik Award, shortlisted Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2011 (Podčetrtek Sports Hall)
33. Salon of Architecture, “Guest of the Salon – Works abroad” Award Belgrade, Serbia, 2011 (Podčetrtek Sports Hall)
ArchDaily Building of the Year Award 2010, finalist New York, United States of America, 2010 (Hotel Sotelia)
Europe 40 under 40 Award Dublin, Ireland, 2010 (Wellness Orhidelia, Gruškovje Border Shop)
Contractworld New Generation Award 2010, shortlisted Hannover, Germany, 2010 (Wellness Orhidelia)
Golden Pencil 2009 Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2009 (Wellness Orhidelia)
Golden Pencil 2009 Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2009 (Gruškovje Border Shop)
World Architecture Festival Award 2009, shortlisted Barcelona, Spain, 2009 (Wellness Orhidelia)
Golden Pencil 2007 Ljubljana, Slovenia 2007 (Jurčkova Housing)
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award 2007, shortlisted Barcelona, Spain, 2007 (Hotel Sotelia)
Plečnik Award Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2006 (Hotel Sotelia)
Piranesi Award Piran, Slovenia, 2006 (Hotel Sotelia)
Golden Pencil 2006 Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2006 (Hotel Sotelia)
Trimo Architectural Award 2005 Viljenica, Slovenia, 2005 (Elcom Houseware)
Plečnik Award, shortlisted Ljubljana, Slovenia 2005 (Wellness Centre Termalija)

Dean Lah was born in 1971 in Maribor, Slovenia and 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. Dean lectures at architectural schools, conferences and symposiums in Slovenia and abroad.

In intention to promote the importance of architectural quality, he has been active as the member of several architectural award and architectural competitions juries, member of executive board of Chamber of Architecture and Spatial Planning of Slovenia, member of European Forum for Architectural policies, member of executive board of Architects Association of Ljubljana and some other formal and informal networks and events on architecture.

Enota was founded in 1998 by Aljoša Dekleva, Dean Lah and Milan Tomac 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 the beginnings it has served as creative platform for more than fifty architects. Since 2002 Enota’s partner architects are Dean Lah and Milan Tomac.

Constant changes and new complex situations in the world around us drive us to think about new ways of architectural and urban organization. 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 and use of new technologies are interwoven 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.