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Hans Emil Meyer called Hannes Meyer (November 18th, 1889 – July 19th, 1954) was a Swiss architect and urbanist and the second director of the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1928 to 1930. Meyer was appointed head of the Bauhaus architecture department when it was established in April 1927. Meyer, a..

Hugo Häring (11 May 1882 – 17 May 1958) was a German architect and architectural writer best known for his writings on "organic architecture", and as a figure in architectural debates about functionalism in the 1920s and 1930s, though he had an important role as an expressionist architect.

He..

The building of the Art Museum of Sao Paulo known as MASP is one of the major works of modern architecture in Brazil. It was designed by Italian architect Lina Bo Bardi and represents her most important work.

The proposal was to build a museum that can hold regular exhibitions, promote..

Ivan Antic was born in Belgrade in 1923. He made his studies in Belgrade from 1945 until he got his diploma in 1950. While studying he worked for the Ministry of Transportation and from 1950 until 1953 he worked for the "Jugoprojekt Office" where he met people like Stanko Kliska and Vojin..

Yrjö Lorenzo Lindegren (13 August 1900 – 12 November 1952) was a Finnish architect. He was born in Tampere and died in Helsinki. He graduated as an architect in 1925 from the Helsinki University of Technology, and set up his own office later the same year.

Lindegren's best-known work is the..

The Ville Radieuse was an unrealised project to house three million inhabitants designed by the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier in 1922. The centerpiece of Corbusier's utopian, urban plan was a group of sixty-story cruciform skyscrapers built on steel frames and encased in curtain walls of..

Edvard Ravnikar was a student of architect Jože Plečnik in the years 1938-39. In 1939 he studied for few months in Paris with Le Corbusier. With knowledge and experience that has accumulated in Le Corbusier’s studio, he created the new architectural school based on the contemporary architectural..

Republic Square complex is the biggest project of a single architect in Ljubljana's center. Edvard Ravnikar won first prize in 1960 competition. The original request was to make a monument memory for the revolution. It was planned as a new Slovenian political center with a square for mass..

Ivan Vurnik was a Slovene architect that helped found the Ljubljana School of Architecture. He was born in an artisan's family in Radovljica. His father was a rather wealthy stonemason and Ivan was sent to school first to Kranj and then to Ljubljana. Vurnik graduated summa cum laude in 1912 from..

The Prule apartment houses were built for academic staff of the University of Ljubljana. This building represents the first of a series of similar interventions in the style of Edvard Ravnikar. Kristl has introduced a range of simple but innovative solutions for collective housing. Flats have a..

Savin Sever was a Slovene architect. He was the son of a lawyer from the Littoral temporarily working in Krško, but he grew up in Maribor and Ljubljana. Sever is considered one of the most typical representatives of the Ljubljana school of Architecture. His work represents a synthesis of the..

Oton Jugovec was a leader of the “Veseli berači” jazz orchestra in which he plays the saxophone and clarinet (1941-45). Soon after the war, he is a Tanjug correspondent in Gorizia, Italy. The same year he obtains a grant from the Czechoslovakian government to study architecture in Prague. He..

Herman Hus belongs to the first generation of Vurnik and Plečnik. He was an architect, publicist and teacher. It is one of the most important architects of Slovenian functionalism. Early works include characters of expressionism and the new reality (Hotel Stara pošta Kranj, Park Bled 1929)...

Josip Costaperaria studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna at Otto Wagner studio (1899/1900). He didn't finished his study under Wagner’s mentor ship but only in 1927 with prof. Clemens Holzmeister at the Akademie der bildenden Kunst in Vienna. In the Austro-Hungarian..

Checkerboard house was the first bourgeois residential building for rent in Ljubljana. It was formed from two related rental houses. Josip Costaperaria had the the role of the architect and also co-investor. The house presents a modern attitude towards elements: flat roof , geometric abstract..

Villa Perhavec is one of the most beautiful villas constructed by Costaperaria. It is recognizable by a line decoration of its facades, which connects the object with the architecture of Adolf Loos and the Belgrade group Zenit.

Renovation of the building was designed by Bevk Perović..

Ivo Spinčič studied architecture at the AUU in Vienna (Behrens School), where he graduated in 1925. He founded the Society of Artists of Applied Arts and was his long-time president. His architectural works includes family houses, public buildings, monuments. He was active in the field of..

Svetozar Križaj was a Slovenian architect. He was very active during the time of his study. He worked as assistant with professor Dusan Grabrijan. As a student he founded with Oton Jugovec and Uroš Vagaja a group Bunker. The group also known as "B team" was formed at the home of Jugovec and was..

Object represents a house in the house. Design and form of the object represents an interesting structure: over the core lies a steel frame on which is suspended a glass facade membrane.

Stanislav Rohrman studied architecture in Prague (1919-22), München (1922-24) and Ljubljana ( graduated in 1927). He worked in the studio of Ivan Vurnik (1928-30). After II. WW was the first president of the Association of Slovenian Architects.