Prostor in mesto. Opombe k tradiciji v slovenski arhitekturni kulturi – Space and City. Notes to Tradition in Slovenian Architectural Culture

The aim of the essay, published in the catalogue of the Slovenian pavillion at the 2010 Venice Biennale and co-edited with Edward Robbins and Ana Kučan, is to highlight the rich tradition of Slovenian architecture within 20th-century urban planning or, in other words, shed light on the concept of space in architecture and urbanism through the example of two great Slovenian architects. In two of the great figures who left their mark on 20th-century Slovenian cities — Jože Plečnik and Edvard Ravnikar — we find innumerable architectural pointers and theoretical references to the legacy of German architectural and art historians and the concept of architecture as Raumkunst. A walk around Ljubljana, whose most monumental areas owe their present appearance to Plečnik and Ravnikar, is enough to immediately comprehend that the city’s urban value and visual richness is primarily indebted to none other than spatial creation.