The exhibition will be on view until September 6th in Center Rog and until September 14th in MAO.   The Future Legacies exhibition brings together the results of three years of collaboration between designers, craftspeople, scientists and other experts, facilitated by ten organisations across six European countries as part of the MADE IN Platform for Contemporary Crafts & Design.   Through over 60 activities, the Platform explored new articulations of the knowledge embedded in the rich legacy of craftsmanship and science, while encouraging critical thinking through contemporary design and art practices and the latest materials science. The Future Legacies exhibition is a space where heritage meets innovation, place-based knowledge intersects with speculative futures, and craft stands at the heart of both cultural continuity and ecological transformation.   This exhibition is built on an exploration of the ways in which traditional skills, local ...

The Ursuline Church of the Holy Trinity on Congress Square in Ljubljana (Carlo Martinuzzi, 1718–1726), has long been regarded as one of the finest – and most unusual – examples of Baroque architecture in Slovenia. Come the 20th century, it underwent an unexpected reinterpretation when the two leading Slovenian architects of the time, Jože Plečnik (1872–1957) and Edvard Ravnikar (1907–1993), adopted it as a cornerstone of their larger architectural vision. Both were in their own way committed to the discipline of the classical; and both perceived the Ursuline Church as a monument to a distinctive architectural culture that emerged out of the intersection of classical tradition and the authentic character of the local environment. Thanks to its exceptional quality, Baroque Ljubljana became, either explicitly or implicitly, a point of reference for other architects working in the city. While Baroque architecture was still largely viewed across Europe in the 20th century as a ...

The Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) opens the exhibition Ensemble – Gerrit Rietveld and the MAO Collection, presenting original works by one of the most important designers and architects of the 20th century. A private collection of furniture and domestic objects, on public view for the first time, is contextualised within the MAO collection and the history of modernist design in Slovenia. The exhibition is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Slovenia.   Gerrit Rietveld (1888–1964) was one of the most important designers and architects of the 20th century. Today, his legacy is most closely associated with his two iconic projects: the Red-Blue Chair and the Rietveld Schröder House, both recognised as symbols of modernism. His early work, characterised by abstract compositions of lines and planes, reflects the principles of the Dutch art movement De Stijl (1917–1931), which championed ...