ONUP Platform | Architecture & Urban Culture in Kosovo

about us

ONUP Platform is a non-governmental organization, which promotes the exchange of information and discussion among architects, urbanists and other professionals involved to enrich the public’s awareness for contemporary architecture and urban environment in general.

activities

background

ONUP was founded in 2009, with its first online publication ONUP Magazine, bringing a theoretical approach to the architecture and urban realities of Kosovo, publishing independent information about developments in the field of architecture, followed by publications of local projects, architect profiles, and various architectural events.

Stories

Jim Stevens lecture in Prishtina, co-organised by ONUP in 2012

ONUP since 2009: architecture as a public conversation

ONUP began in 2009 with an independent publication focused on architecture and urban life in Kosovo. The platform’s existing introduction describes a…

Young architects presenting the Venice Biennale learning exchange

Common Ground: ONUP’s part in a 2012 Venice learning exchange

In 2012, the Common Ground theme of the Venice Architecture Biennale became the starting point for a learning exchange involving young architects…

ONUP Talks Home or Abroad original poster

Home or Abroad: revisiting the first ONUP Talks

ONUP Talks brought the relationship between Kosovo and its architectural diaspora into public discussion. The first edition, announced in October 2014, was…

ONUP Talks Home or Abroad lecture programme

Keeping the conversation accessible: the ONUP Talks lecture archive

A talk can continue to reach people after an event ends. ONUP Magazine’s recorded lecture features make that possible for readers revisiting…

Blog updates

Prishtina’s Marshal Tito boulevard in 1963, with modernist buildings and pedestrians.

Before we change Prishtina again, we should understand what we have

We all have an opinion about Prishtina’s buildings. The Library, Grand Hotel, Rilindja, the Palace of Youth. We recognise them immediately, argue about their appearance and use them as reference…

Indoor hall used for parking, Prishtina

A maintenance plan belongs in the architecture drawing

The day a building opens is an easy day to photograph. The harder question is what it will look like after several winters, a broken fitting and a change of…

National Library of Kosovo in Prishtina

Architecture education should leave the studio more often

The studio gives an architecture student room to test an idea. It also makes it possible to keep testing the same idea without meeting anyone who would have to live…

From the archive

ONUP Talks is debuting on its first edition, as an architecture symposium organized by ONUP Platform with the support of the Kosovar Ministry of Diaspora, on a series of talks by well-known Kosovan architects and artists living and working all around the world. Read more…