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Idis Turato (1965) is an architect and a professor at the Faculty of Architecture on University of Zagreb and a guest professor on Faculties of architecture in Belgrade, Split and Ljubljana. In 1992, together with Saša Randić, he co-founded architecture office Randić Turato and in 2009 he started his own office – Arhitektonski biro Turato. He received numerous architecture awards; in 2005 he won Piranesi award for Elementary school Fran Krsto Frankopan. Ten times his projects were nominated for EU - Mies Van der Rohe Award, and he won all of the most important Croatian architecture awards; Viktor Kovačić, Drago Galić and Vladimir Nazor. He presented Croatia at the 10th Architecture Biennale in Venice with the project “In Between” and at the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale, with group of Croatian architects, with the project “Pavilion”. He was part of the team behind the concept of winning program "Port of Diversity" getting Rijeka to be European Capital of Culture in 2020, and is the leader of one of the flagships inside the project "Sweet & Salt".