Emil Jurcan
Senior Assistant
Housing.YU (ERC-CoG br. 101171985)
E. ejurcan / ipu.hr
B. CRORIS profil
Biography
He was born in 1981 in Pula. He graduated at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Ljubljana in 2007. As an architect, he worked within the Pula Group, with which he represented Croatia at the Venice Biennale in 2012. During his career he completed several projects for the renovation and conservation of cultural heritage, such as the Leonardelli Palace in Galižana, the Roman theatre in Pula, the Loggia square in Oprtalj, the Šubićevac memorial park in Šibenik, and the tomb of Vladimir Gortan in Beram. He deepened his practical experience in the field of architectural reconstruction and conservation through research work within his doctoral dissertation under the supervision of prof. Maruša Zorec at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Ljubljana, entitled “Approaches and Methods of Conservation of Roman Monuments in Pula within the Process of Urban Modernization in the 19th and 20th Centuries”, which he defended in 2025.
He is co-editor of the Dobrolet architecture theory edition together with Luka Skansi, PhD. Within the Urban Studies program at the University of Rijeka he teaches the course Art and Society. He conducted his professional and social activities as president of the Society of Architects of Istria between 2015 and 2019 and as president of the Association of Croatian Architects between 2017 and 2019. Since December 2025 he has been employed at the Institute of Art History as a senior assistant and a member of the research team of the ERC project Housing.Yu – Right to Housing: the Production of Spaces of Everyday Life in Yugoslavia (1945–1991), led by Tamara Bjažić Klarin, PhD.