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Keywords Change this
Functionalism, Brutalism, Vernacular Architecture
Birth date / place
December 4th 1907, Novo Mesto, SloveniaSelected Architecture

- Memorial Complex Kampor Rab
- Republic Square
- Modern Gallery
- Renovation of Modern Gallery
- Cankarjev dom
- Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
Practice / Active in Change this
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Miloš BončaJože Plečnik
Marko Mušič
Milan Mihelič
Savin Sever
Marjan Tepina
Awards Change this
- 1961 - Prešeren Award
- 1978 - Prešeren Award
Edvard Ravnikar Change this
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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 currents in Western Europe. During 1946-1980 was a professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Ljubljana. He led the new generation of Slovene architects, notable for developing the Slovene architecture field's infrastructure, organizing architectural competitions. He also promoted Scandinavian architectural style in Slovenia, particularly Finnish achievements in architecture accomplished by Alvar Aalto. Ravnikar’s architecture is an unusual mixture of Plečnik classicism, Le Corbusier brutalism and vernacular architecture.
Ravnikar and his students have taken over key tasks in the post-war reconstruction in socialist Slovenia and Yugoslavia. Slovenian modern architecture that was created at that time was recognized for rational use of materials, thought floor organization and specific details. These have been the architects forced to invent because of the lack of finished construction products, on the other hand they continued the craft, which was introduced in the school by Plečnik.
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