Nenad Manasijevic

Nenad who is known as Manas studied architecture at the University of Zagreb, then attended London’s University of Westminster before starting work as an architect. Since joining tp bennett, he has been engaged in many projects: most notably the creation of innovative student residential schemes for Nido and Pure.

This work has informed Manas’ abiding interest in new residential paradigms for young urban living, reflected in projects such as Dresdenerstrasse, an eight-story student-residential development in Vienna; Miles Street in Vauxhall, London – which is to include a 37-story student residential tower – and The Garden Halls, a regenerated block in Bloomsbury providing a 1,200-student residential campus for the University of London.

Manas is interested in architectural theory, and while at University won the coveted Banister Fletcher Prize for his thesis Ideology, Myth, Architecture on Italian Rationalism and Russian Constructivism, examining the relationship between 20th-century architecture and political ideology.