April 25, 2026

Sustainable construction as the rule, not the alternative

After the exhibitions "Parallel Places" (2019) and "The Distance that Connects" (2023), architect Bratislav Tošković (1960), who has been living and working in Finland for 38 years, has returned to his hometown. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade in 1985, began his career as a lecturer at the University of Mosul in Iraq, and from 1988 continued in Finland at the renowned firm Parviainen Architects (now Olla Architecture), where he became a partner in 2003. As a lecturer, he came to Belgrade this time to participate with a lecture titled "Circular Intelligence in Urban Development" at the "Smart Engineering for Urban Development" conference, organized by Nordic countries at the Chamber of Commerce of Serbia. Through his long-term work in Finland, the specific Finnish style has inspired Tošković's spirit with three currents: functional, organic, and human, which was clearly felt when he presented diverse embodiments of sustainability in architecture through three of his projects at the conference. He says his desire was to present a counterweight to stereotypical trends increasingly present in Serbia, where green architecture is mostly understood as buildings with green roofs and dense greenery planted on terraces.