Bruno Juričić

Juričić was born in 1977 in Pula, Croatia.^[1] He has a master's degree in urban planning.^[2] Juričić graduated from the Iuav University of Venice, and got his MSc with excellence from the University of Applied Arts of Vienna.^[3][4][5]

He represented Croatia at the 2018 Venice Biennale, presenting Croatia's “Cloud Pergola / The Architecture of Hospitality”, which at the time was said to be one of the world's largest and most complex 3D-fabricated structures.^[6][7][8][9]

In 2018, he became the author of a €100 million leisure complex in Haining, China. The entire complex covers 200,000 m2, and the hotel complex about 35,000 m2, with a cultural centre dedicated to Haining native writer Jin Yong. Yong inspired the construction of the complex, which is informed by wuxia.^[10] Xia Ke means "ode to gallantry" in Chinese, and is the title of one of Yang's most famous works, a "much-filmed martial arts epic" that bears some resemblance to Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.^[11] Juričić is the first Croatian architect to win a tender of these proportions with his own project.^[12][11]

He currently lives between Pula and Shanghai.^[2]