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Boštjan Bugarič (* 27. August 1976 in Koper, Slovenia) is an architect, researcher, curator, critic and editor based between Koper (Slovenia) and Berlin (Germany).

Life and Career
He leads KUD C3, a collective for spatial research of contemporary urban trends. In 2011 KUD C3 was awarded with the Golden Cube Award for the project Public city. As an artist in residence by the Ministry of Culture of Republic in Slovenia was in London (2016) and in New York (2012). In 2014 he collaborated at a community recuperation project in Mexico City within Casa Imelda and UAM University.

In 2018 he organized the international conference Collective Housing: New Initiativesat the Faculty of Architecture Ljubljana, City Museum Ljubljana and Museum of Architecture and Design Ljubljana, focusing on topics related to collective housing including invited experts Alessio Rosati (Rome), Davide Marchetti (Rome), Gabu Heindl (Vienna), Florian Köhl (Berlin), Frédéric Druot (Paris) and Rémi Buscot (Paris).

For the University of Primorska in Koper he coordinated the accreditation and established the Faculty of Built Environment (2008-13), where he took a position of the acting dean (2011 – 2013). In same period was active as a president of the Society of Coastal Architects Koper, Slovenia. In 2015 was a research collaborator at Faculty of Architecture Ljubljana and from 2019 to 2021 as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. Since 2020 is a professor at the Visual Art and Design department at the Faculty of Pedagogy in Koper, Slovenia. In cooperation with the Piran Coastal Galleries in collaboration with [|Marjetica Potrč] and Polonca Lovšin he was mentoring the collaborative workshop Štorta Path for citizens of Piran and was part of Potrč's exhibition Water and Land.

Projects
In 2012 he leaded, together with the Digital Media Lab Ljudmila, an activist and independent reestablishment of the SKICA - Slovenian Cultural Center in Vienna. One year later he exhibited as a selected author at the 7th U3 Triennale of Contemporary Art in Slovenia in MSUM+ Ljubljana. He organised an International Summer School INFORMAL CITY: Temporal-Autonomous Utopias in 2021 in Koper, Slovenia on the initiative of the collective Avtomatik Delovišče.

He is also an author of WELTRAUM, a radio show about space at the Independent Coastal Radio NOR. With WELTRAUM he participated at the Prishtina Public Archipelago, a part of the Co-Habitats section of the main exhibition at the 2021 Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia curated by Hashim Sarkis. Since 2019 is a co-curator of the exhibition [https://www.dessa.si/exhibitions/2020_architecture_sculpture_remembrance_1945_1991 Architecture. Sculpture. Memory. The art of monuments of Yugoslavia 1945–1991] in collaboration with the DESSA Gallery.

Architectuul
Since 2014 is a Senior editor at the open source community archive Architectuul in Berlin. Architectuul is an online architecture catalog that uses crowdsourcing to build content. It is a wiki-style repository whose goal is to provide access to images and other project and biographical content that celebrates the architectural practice. It’s rich assembly borders on ephemera, juxtaposing the expected–images and data concerning architecture from the great historical canon–with the random–state circuses, garages, temporary architecture, obscure contemporary pieces, etc. Each entry include images, project or biographical data, geographical information, keywords, and links to other sites containing relevant content, and can be further developed by the community-at-large.

It was founded in 2010 by a team of architects, graphic designers and software engineers. All of the text and many of the images uploaded to the site use a Creative Commons license, making the process similar to Wikipedia. Architectuul has buildings from various era's with a large range from the 20th Century and rare Constructivist architecture. Architectuul is utilised as a source by several publications, Universities and is part of projects like Future Architecture, LINA Project and Forgotten Masterpieces - FOMA, a digitalisation of Modernist Architecture by Docomomo Germany, Kaunas Capital of Culture and Contineo Skopje.

Since 2016 he is coordinating the Architectuul’s associated partnership at the Future Architecture Platform and since 2020 at the European Architecture Platform LINA.

Writing
He was journalist for the Slovenian architecture magazine Hiše. He also published some articles for Tagszeitung TAZ together with his husband [| Martin Reichert].