PLEČNIK AND LJUBLJANA: open space management

Plečnik House, 2 February-12 May 2024

A new exhibition at the Plečnik House will highlight the principles of Plečnik's design of open space in Ljubljana.

The surroundings of buildings, gardens, parks, squares, roads, promenades, staircases, embankments, courtyards, playgrounds, the stadium, the summer theatre, the memorial and archaeological park, the farewell complex by the cemetery, and even the graves - architect Plečnik designed almost every conceivable kind of urban open space in his design of Ljubljana. The exhibition Plečnik and Ljubljana: the ordering of open space, which opens at the Plečnik House on Friday 2 February 2024, is dedicated to these very principles of his work.

The author of the exhibition is Conservation Councillor mag. Darja Pergovnik, who has been working at the Slovenian Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage for many years on the study and protection of Plečnik's buildings and green spaces in Ljubljana.

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Photos by Matevž Paternoster, Darja Pergovnik, Tadej Bolta, Lojze Gostiša, Petr Naglič archive, documentation by MGML, Moderna galerija, Museum of Contemporary and Contemporary History of Slovenia, Ethnographic Museum of Slovenia, Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, Ljubljana Historical Archive.

Triangular park and playground in Tivoli, after 1933; photo: SEM

Promenade in Tivoli, opening the view towards the Ljubljana Castle, after 1933; photo: documentation MGML/Plečnik Collection

The author of the exhibition is Conservation Councillor mag. Darja Pergovnik, who has been working at the Slovenian Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage for many years on the study and protection of Plečnik's buildings and green spaces in Ljubljana.