godišnjak / yearbook 2012/2013
student
mentor
Lucija Lončar
Andrej Uchytil
Arhitektonski fakultet, sveučilište u zagrebu
Faculty of Architecture, UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB
Arhitekt Josip Tešija
Architect Josip Tešija
Arhitekt Josip Tešija rođen je 21. veljače 1926. godine u Osijeku. Osnovnu školu i Realnu gimnaziju završio je u rodnom gradu, a studij arhitekture u Zagrebu na tadašnjem Arhitektonskom odjelu Tehničkog fakulteta 1954. godine, u klasi profesora Vladimira Turine. Nakon diplomiranja odmah se vraća u Osijek i prve četiri godine radi u građevinskom poduzeću ‘Gradnja’. Godine 1958. s arhitektom Franjom Mesarićem osniva projektni biro Arhitekt u kojem djeluje neprekidno do odlaska u mirovinu 1985. godine. U tom periodu projektira pedesetak zgrada, većinom realiziranih u Osijeku. Za svoj stručni rad dobio je niz društvenih priznanja, među kojima Nagrade grada Osijeka za zgradu pošte u Donjem gradu, za energanu u dvorištu Saponije u Donjem gradu i za projekt uređenja restorana Bastion u osječkoj Tvrđi (koautori arhitekti Franjo Mesarić i Dragutin Kapun). Arhitekt Tešija pripada prvoj generaciji osječkih arhitekt koji su završili studij arhitekture i počeli djelovati u Osijeku nakon II. svjetskog rata. Uz arhitekta Mesarića zapravo započinje uspostavu arhitektonske djelatnosti nakon prekida nastalog odlaskom, odnosno prestankom djelovanja najznačajnijih arhitekata koji su u Osijeku djelovali uoči i za vrijeme II. svjetskog rata: Axmanna, Domesa i Pelzera, a koji su ustvari bili prvi akademski obrazovani arhitekti u Osijeku. Mesarić i Tešija započinju djelatnost arhitekture u Osijeku nakon perioda zastoja od oko 15-ak godina nakon rata kada praktično arhitekture nije niti bilo, obzirom da je prioritet bila obnova grada i sve se svodilo na ‘građevinarstvo’. Osnivanjem projektnog biroa Arhitekt u Osijeku, kojega su osnivači upravo arhitekti Mesarić i Tešija, započinju i prvi arhitektonsko ambiciozniji projekti. Ostvarenja im uključuju Stambenu zgradu Koteks, Domove zdravlja u Drinskoj, Retfali i na Jugu II, Osnovnu školu u Školskoj ulici, Upravnu školu u dvorištu Županije, Industrijske zgrade u pogonu Saponije, Rekreacijski centar Copacabana, Sportsku dvoranu Zrinjevac, Veslački klub Iktus, Zgradu pošte u Donjem gradu, Zgradu projektnog ureda Arhitekt.
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Architect Joseph Tešija was born on 21 February 1926 in Osijek. He completed elementary and grammar school in his native town, and the study of architecture in Zagreb at what was then the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering in 1954 in the class of Professor Vladimir Turina. After graduating, he returned to Osijek and for the first four years he worked in the construction company ‘Gradnja’. In 1958 he founded the project office Arhitekt with architect Franjo Mesarić where he worked continuously until his retirement in 1985. During this period he worked on the design of fifty buildings, mostly realised in Osijek. He received great social recognition for his professional work, including the City of Osijek Award for the Post Office Building in the Lower Town, for a power plant in the courtyard of ‘Saponija’ in the Lower Town and for the design project for the restaurant Bastion at Tvrđa (co-authors are architects Franjo Mesarić and Dragutin Kapun). Architect Tešija belongs to the first generation of Osijek architects who completed studies in architecture and began to work in Osijek after World War II. In fact, alongside architect Mesarić he began establishing architectural activities after the work of the most important architects who had worked in Osijek before and during World War II ended: Axmann, Domes and Pelzer, who were the first academically trained architects in Osijek. Mesarić and Tešija started off as architects in Osijek 15 odd years after the war when there was practically no architecture, in view of the fact that the priority was the rebuilding of the city and it all came down to ‘construction’. Upon the establishment of the project office Arhitekt in Osijek, the founders, architects Mesarić and Tešija, initiated their first ambitious projects. Their accomplishments include the residential building Koteks the Health Centres in Drinska, Retfali and Jug II, the Elementary School in Školska Street, the Managing School in the courtyard of the County Offices, the Industrial buildings at the ‘Saponija’ plant, the Recreation Centre Copacabana, the Sports Centre Zrinjevac, the Rowing Club Iktus, the Post Office building in the Lower Town and the building of the design office Arhitekt.
Department of History and Theory of Architecture