SINESTEZIA STORY

Sinestezia is a young and critical Belgrade based product, graphic and architecture multi disciplinary studio with background from Paris and New York but strong roots in the Balkans.

Sinestezia is created by Ana Zatezalo in 2004, later the group includes Serbian architect Cedomir Ristic together with numerous collaborators on joint venture contracts.

Ana Zatezalo is born in Ljubljana, since then lived, studied and worked in Belgrade, Moscow, Paris and New York, recently moved back to Belgrade where smelled a momentum for good design and saw a potential for her studio Sinestezia.

Sinestezia sees architecture as act of positivism.

Sinestezia tries to link gaps between experimental, theoretical and corporate worlds. Sinestezia principles are removed from conventional design processes but they lead to real built projects. Sinestezia searches for stimuli in the world of optic, haptic, cinematic, in science and in new technologies.

Sinestezia designs, develops and mediates projects for diverse group of clients in a wide array of professions such as Design, Architecture and Media. Sinestezia values investment, Sinestezia values team work. Sinestezia want to innovate.

 
ANA ZATEZALO

Ana Zatezalo is born in Ljubljana, since then lived, studied and worked in Belgrade, Moscow, Paris and New York, recently moved back to Belgrade where she smelled a momentum for her design and saw a potential for her studio Sinestezia.

Ana Zatezalo graduated at the Architecture School Villemin in Paris 1999. She received her Master degree in Advanced Architectural Design from GSAP Columbia University in 2001 where she worked with professors like Steven Holl, Kenneth Frampton, Evan Douglis and Lars Spuybroek.

After her graduation she had been working in Architecture Studio, Paris and Technip Serie Construction on residential, industrial and commercial projects. In New York during three years she was part of Archi-Tectonics, an internationally recognized firm, in New York.

In 2004 Ana Zatezalo was selected to build a first Design Hotel in Belgrade, and since then Ana is working independently and created Sinestezia lab for architecture in Belgrade closer to its major project. Ana is collaborating with unique designers, urban designers and students from the Architecture University of Belgarde. Sinestezia is conceiving projects from stage design , interiors to art installations.

In Serbia receives awards at renamed competitions like Bloc 19 Housing, Architecture of Milosev Konak, Nomination for Design and Business Award and Nomination for Novosti Price.

Ana is currently working on presenting her PHD thesis; she presented at the Architecture Biennale in Istambul in July 2005 and at the first Architecture Biennale Beiijing, China 2004 and lectured at the Conference `Memory and Forgetting` at Columbia University in 2003 and Los Moches, Mexico as Project leader representing Archi-Tectonics. Ana assisted architecture workshops including Paris 1997, Berlin 1998, Newcastle upon Tyne 2000, Belgrade 2001 and 2004.

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