Petra Jurcica 2/a, Rijeka, 00 385 51 339 909
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I'm Marko Franković, founder and principal of MF Arhitekti, an architecture practice based in Rijeka, at the heart of the Kvarner Bay. Over the past 25 years I have led or contributed to more than 1,200 projects, ranging from the conservation of protected cultural heritage to contemporary residential, tourism and educational buildings — and, as one of the first architects in Croatia to build in cross-laminated timber, I remain equally at home designing in wood. My work is guided by respect for context, whether that means restoring a historic structure or shaping a new building for the way people actually live and work today. I invite you to explore our projects and get in touch to discuss your own
MARKO FRANKOVIĆ
Founder & Principal, MF Arhitekti · Rijeka, Croatia
Marko Franković (b. 1975, Rijeka) is the founder and principal of MF Arhitekti. Over 25 years of practice he has led or contributed to more than 1,200 projects spanning the full range of the discipline — from the conservation and adaptive reuse of protected cultural heritage to contemporary residential, tourism and educational buildings along the Kvarner coast and islands. He was among the first architects in Croatia to build in cross-laminated timber, working with CLT since its earliest introduction in Europe in the early 2000s, and remains one of the country's leading practitioners of timber construction.
He chairs the consultancy team overseeing the Spatial Plan of Primorje–Gorski Kotar County (since 2012) and is a member of the Croatian Chamber of Architectsn and the Rijeka Association of Architects.
EDUCATION
Dipl.-Ing. Arch. (equiv. M.Arch.), Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia — IUAV, Italy (2001). Postgraduate specialisation, Conservation, Management and Valorisation of Industrial Heritage — Università di Padova / IUAV / Politecnico di Torino (2003). Doctoral studies, Conservation of Architectural and Environmental Heritage — University of Nova Gorica / IUAV / ICCROM (from 2012).
LICENSURE
Licensed architect, Croatian Chamber of Architects, No. A 3611 (since 2010; independent practice rights since 2001); authorised to work on protected cultural monuments (since 2015).
TEACHING
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka (since 2014; on faculty since 2010) — architectural design and spatial planning.
PUBLICATIONS
Author / co-author of three books on the vernacular architecture of Gorski Kotar and the Kvarner littoral (Primorje–Gorski Kotar County, 2005–2008); contributing author, IUAV / Il Poligrafo, Venice (2015) and Jagiellonian University Press, Kraków (2007); co-author, “Energy Retrofit of the Kršan Castle,” Energy and Buildings (2016).
RECOGNITION
Croatian Green Building Council award, Katarina Frankopan Kindergarten, Malinska (2017); University of Rijeka certificate of appreciation (2017).
LANGUAGES
Italian, Croatian and English — full professional fluency. French — reading knowledge.