We invite you to the presentation on the dry-stone masonry technique, June 17th, 2014 Gornja Lastva

We invite you to the presentation on dry-stone masonry technique, which will be held on Tuesday, June 17th, 2014 at 18:00 at the Culture Center - Gornja Lastva. Lectures on buildings built in dry-stone masonry technique in the Mediterranean, and experiences in the field of protection, restoration and promotion of dry-stone masonry technique, will hold our guests from Slovenia and Croatia.

Borut Juvanec, architect, Ph.D., professor at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana.

Scientific and research work: Lectures on several European universities (Firenze, Bratislava, Zagreb, Graz, Sofija, Malta, Rome); research origins of architecture: Vernacular Architecture in Slovenia, 1985; Kozolec / Hayrack, 1998; The Stone Shelters, 1999.

Publishing: Monographies, several scientific and professional articles in monographs and on electronic media

Member: He is active in ICOMOS Paris/Ljubljana (Scientific Committee on Vernacular Architecture), ISPROM Sassari/I, SPS le Val/F, he is member of SAH Society of Architectural Historians, Chicago/USA, ISG Internationale Staedteforum, Graz/A, CERAV Centre d’etude et de recherche sur l’architecture vernaculaire Paris/F. He is organizing yearly International Conference on Vernacular Architecture in Slovenia.

Filip Bubalo, Udruga Dragodid, Vis

Dragodid Project is an initiative to study and practice national/folk architecture in our karst. The main activities are organization of the drystone masonry workshops and popularization of drystone masonry technique ...... Dragodid is a village of a few houses in the far northwest of the island Vis, situated about fifty minutes' walk from Komiza. There is no electricity or running water. Founded in the early 19th century from a poor peasant family Suic, which chosen for its residential hill next to their vineyards and fields. As the family expanded settlement grew, until the second half of the 20th century, when it was abandoned. Still, to this day, there are occasional residents, and still exist parts of the vineyards, and rosemary is harvested. In the village, occasionally for lunch, bowling and watching rare Eleonora's falcon (Falco eleonorae) come vacationers from Komiza.

Transport for guests from Tivat to Gornja Lastva and back is arranged:

17.30 – from the city center, near the Post Office Building(across the street from the Municipality of Tivat)

17.35 – at the turn to Gornja Lastva (across the street of Hotel Perper)

Return from Gornja Lastva - after the lecture.