VEDINA BABAHMETOVIĆ
VEDINA BABAHMETOVIĆ
Babahmetović graduated in 1985 from the Faculty of Architecture in Sarajevo. In the early 90s, she simultaneously worked in various companies and independently designed her first interiors. After a five-year hiatus caused by the war, she founded the architectural office Entasis in Zenica in 1997. Since then, she has continuously worked as the chief architect on various projects. The first post-war years were marked by intensive work in the Vitez Valley, where a construction boom produced many new typologies. Together with her team, she worked on many projects, including the Franchise Center in Vitez, the Kakanj Municipality Building, the Makovi Residential and Business Complex, the Administrative Building and Showroom Tisa, the Small Administration House and Big Pine Trees, many residential buildings and urban villas.
Over the past 27 years, Entasis has worked on more than 60 projects, realizations, and preliminary designs. In 2011, Entasis started promoting Bosnian designer furniture with its brand Intent Design. The Intent Design Showroom is now part of Entasis’ business building, and Entasis is both the investor and the designer.
Entasis has won many awards, including Collegium Artisticum Awards for Best Realization, Big See Awards, Share Omnia Award, and nominations for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and EU Mies van der Rohe Award.
Vedina Babahmetović is the first woman without a partner to win the Grand Prix Collegium Artisticum prize since its founding in 1975.
