An exhibition showcasing architects who learnt their art from the best known Slovenian architect Joze Plecnik and then went on to study with Le Corbusier will open in Ljubljana on Tuesday in what is a tribute to both architects in the jubilee year.
The show coincides with the 50th anniversary of Plecnik's death, the 120th anniversary of Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier and the centenary of Edvard Ravnikar, a Slovenian architect who studied with Plecnik and worked for Le Corbusier.
"Plecnik's Students with Le Corbusier" features seven architects who were eager to upgrade the basics they learnt from Plecnik with new trends in functionalism in the studio of what was one of the most important architect of his time.
In this way they linked Slovenian architecture with the cosmopolitan French scene, according to a press release from the Ljubljana Architectural Museum, which put on the exhibition at the Vzigalica gallery in Ljubljana.
Running until 20 June, the show will display designs, documents, photographs, books, articles, letters and other material on the seven architects who worked for Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, and his cousin Pierre Jeannere in Paris.
It will also showcase other Slovenian architects and builders and architects from Croatia and Serbia who worked for Le Corbusier. Around a hundred architects from across the world worked in his studio in Rue de Sevres before World War II.
The exhibition will also features books by Le Corbusier which Plecnik's students bought in Paris and elsewhere, and books and articles on Plecnik and Ravnikar.
The event is part of the French-Slovenian Spring, a festival co-sponsored by the French Institute Charles Nodier, and is expected to tour Paris, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Cetinje and Zagreb.
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