Logo explanation

FREIE                                                     FREE                                      NEOVISNI 
ARCHITEKTEN                          ARCHITECTS                                     ARHITEKTI
und                                                          and                                                     i
INGENIEURE                                ENGINEERS                                     INŽENJERI
 

F - FREI, FREE, SLOBODA                                          Free as you only can be!

Quotes:

Tomislav Premerl, architect

(iz predgovora Tomislava Premerla hrvatskom izdanju Moderne arhitekture Kennetha Framptona)

Nema više općih kriterija pa ih sami sebi moramo stvarati, sami tražiti odnose među vrijednostima, sami prosuđivati.
To je samo prividna SLOBODA čija nas iluzija dovodi do nemoći iz straha pred mogućim raspadom.     
Ali kad se namjerno zaboravi povijest, gubi se slijed i ostaje u bezizlazju.
Već i sama takva spoznaja naviještanje je novog pomaka duha, naviještanje novoga vremena
koje će, znamo to iz povijesnog iskustva, neminovno doći s novim mislima čije oblike još i ne slutimo.


(From the preface of Premerl Tomislav Croatian edition of Modern Architecture by Kenneth Frampton)

There are no more general criteria so that we have to create them ourselves,
to try to find relationships between values, to rethink them alone.
This is only seemingly FREEDOM, illusion of which leads to the impotence caused by fear of a possible disintegration.
But when the history is deliberately forgotten, then the sequence is lost leading to stalemate.
The mere knowledge of such is the proclamation of the new spirit of progress,
proclamation of new times that will, we know this from historical experience,
inevitably come with new forms of unforeseen thought.

Gunter Behnisch, Architekt

(aus Benisch & Partner Bauten 1952.-1992. Verlag Gerd Hatje)

Beim beurteilen von Architectur ist manches zu beachten, zum Beispiel, dass das Bunte, Vielfaltige, ungeordnet Erscheinende der Werke unserer Zeit der Wiederschein der moglichen Vielfalt unserer Welt und der moglichen FREIHEIT in dieser Welt ist, derjenigen Freiheit, die wir uns wunschen fur das eigene Leben, derjenigen Freiheit, die dazu fuhren konnte, dass Ding und Wesen zu sich selbst finden konnen.

(from Benisch & Partner Bauten 1952.-1992. Verlag Gerd Hatje)

When assessing the architecture one should pay attention to many things, for example that the diversity, variety, irregular occurrence of achievements of our time are reflections of the possible diversity of our world and possible FREEDOM of this world, the freedom that we want in own life, the freedom which could lead to recognition between of the Object and the Essence.