We are happy to announce that a new book that Špela Kuhar and Robert Potokar wrote was published recently. More on the book here and on the publisher’s website. The book is at the moment available in Slovene language only, but the English version of the guide will be published in 2024.
An interview with the authors (also in Slovene only) is available on the website of the newspaper Gorenjski Glas.
More about book here.
Vojteh Ravnikar would have celebrated his 80th birthday today, but unfortunately, he did not live to celebrate. In 2010 he passed away far too soon, but he left behind a wide range of creations: from architecture, Piranesi magazine, Piran Architecture Days, teaching at the Faculty of Architecture, scenography, drawings, plans... and last but not least, colleagues and students, who often recognized his mastery of architecture through his relaxed and colorful sketches that sometimes said more than his words. Vojteh's sketches reflect his joy for architecture, work, enjoying life, wine, jazz, and poetry.
Let us remember him with his poem:
When there is no day,
it is night,
when there is no road,
there is a path.
When you are not here,
it is as if all meaning is lost,
the tree and the vine,
against each other.
A word breaks without sound,
what burns is no longer hot:
the shade is not cool and water doesn’t quench.
It is rain that will cleanse everything,
that will permeate meaning,
and the seed of repentance will take hold,
and branches grow green again.
(v.m.r.)
On Friday, June 17, 2022, there was an official opening of nine new classrooms at Janko Kersnik Elementary School Brdo pri Lukovici. The new classrooms were created by rearranging the premises of the school's old sports hall.
More about the project here.
We are happy to announce that a new book that Špela Kuhar and Robert Potokar wrote was just published. A book named Stories of Slovenian architecture tries to make knowledge of Slovenian architecture more accessible to general public. More on the book on the publisher’s website. The book is at the moment available in Slovene language only. You are kindly invited to learn more about the importance of the book for Slovenian culture in the videos below.
A longer interview with the authors:
On the 22nd Salon of architecture Novi Sad we were awarded the prize for the project Renovation of historic centre - Castra in Ajdovščina, in the category of urban design. We also received an honourable mention in category architecture for the project Beaver Center - Nature Conservation Center Sotla, on which we collaborated with the architect Andrej Strehovec.
This year the salon was organized online by Association of Novi Sad Architects (DaNS). More info on the Salon on the link below. For more info on the awarded project, click here (Ajdovščina) or here (Beaver Center).
Today marks 10 years since our dear Vojteh left us much too soon.
In the book, Stories of Slovenian Architecture, which is being prepared by Špela Kuhar and Robert Potokar, one of the stories will be dedicated to his creative work. At the end of this story the authors wrote:
“He loved jazz, especially Miles Davis. Davis, a master of improvisation, played intuitively and lightly as if guided by an invisible hand, and Ravnikar's creative process felt very similar. The lines that appeared on the paper gave the impression that they were passing from a parallel world, unknown to us. "
Let these two sentences stand in memory of Vojteh next to his works.
On the public competition for a new pool complex in Češča vas, we won a 2nd Prize.
More about the competition on ZAPS.
We received a Golden pencil 2019 award for an outstanding realization of a project Business center Vrelec, with a coauthor architect Andrej Strehovec. More on ZAPS.
More about the project on Business center Vrelec and Strehovec Architecture.
On the competition for Erjavčeva multi-dwelling building in Ljubljana we won an award of jury - mention.
More on ZAPS.
On public competition for a renovation of historic centre of City of Laško we won 3rd Prize.
More on ZAPS.
On the international competition for a new Science centre in Ljubljana we won an award of jury - mention.
More on ZAPS.
We kindly invite you to visit the opening of the exhibition Slovene Alpine architecture 2008 - 2018, which will take place on Monday, 28th of January 2019 at 20 pm in Gallery Dessa.
Our project A square and a playground under the castle in Škofja Loka was selected to be one of the exhibited architectural works.
More on www.dessa.si.
