Museum of Architecture and Design

The 2010 edition of the Biennial of Industrial Design at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana. Biennial of Design (BIO) is one of the few international biennial exhibitions dedicated to showcasing industrial, product, and graphic design work selected by professional design institutions.

The Ljubljana Architecture Museum was established in 1972 by the Municipality of Ljubljana. In April 2010 the management of the museum was transferred from the city to the state. Under the new name the Museum of Architecture and Design is the central Slovene museum for architecture, town planning, industrial and graphic design, and photography. Since 1992 the Museum is located at Fužine Castle. It houses also a permanent display of oeuvres by the leading Slovene architect Jože Plečnik (1872–1957).

Since 1972 the Secretariat of the Biennial of Design (BIO) (formerly known as Biennial of Industrial Design) operates under the aegis of the museum. In 2014 the 24th biennial opens its door with an international design exhibition curated by Jan Boelen from Belgium.

Departments

The activities of the Museum of Architecture and Design have expanded since the move to the Fužine Castle. The museum now incorporates 6 departments: the Department of Historical Architecture in Slovenia, the Department of Contemporary Slovene Architecture, the Department of Industrial Design, the Department of Visual Communications, the Department of Photography, and the Department of Educational Activities. The museum also houses a specialised library.

Programme

The Museum of Architecture and Design systematically collects, stores, studies, and presents material at permanent and temporary exhibitions. The display The Architect Jože Plečnik 1872–1957 is based on a major exhibition of the same title at the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris in 1986. Special themed historical exhibitions include The Modern Classic Arne Jacobsen 1902–1971: A Centenary Exhibition (2004), 17th-Century Architecture in Slovenia (2006), 18th-Century Architecture in Slovenia (2007), and 19th-Century Architecture in Slovenia (2013). Beside periodical exhibitions of Slovene architecture, the museum also hosts regular exhibitions of international architecture. Such as the exhibition Beyond Everydayness: Theatre Architecture in Central Europe which was organised by the network of Central European theatre and architecture organisations participating in the TACE project, including the National Theatre Museum of Slovenia.

Among contemporary design exhibitions the exhibition Niko Kralj: The Unknown Famous Designer was quite a break-through: it showcased the archives, sketches, photographs, prototypes and final products of the world-renowned Slovenian industrial designer Niko Kralj (1921–2013), including the famous Rex armchair, Lupina series, 4455 and modular system furniture Futura, Savinja, Javor, Konstrukta, as well as the Mosquito chair, which was designed as early as 1953, but due to the complexity of its manufacture, it only entered regular production in 2012.

Niko Kralj, neznani znani oblikovalec // Making of by Drustvo Pekinpah on Vimeo

Education

Lectures and other educational activities, including creative workshops, take place regularly at the museum. Museum evenings are thematically structured lectures ranging from architecture, visual communications, industrial design, photography and other activities connected with museums. Taking place once a month they aim to encourage public debate about museums and different areas of expertise that are increasingly neglected in contemporary society.

In 2006–2007 the ARK - Institute for Architecture and Culture co-organised a series of lectures under the title Architectural Epicentres. These lectures focused on seven epicentres – Brazil and Mexico in the 1950s, Finland in the 1960s, Switzerland and USA in the 1980s, Barcelona in the 1990s, and the Netherlands at the close of the 20th century, while the concluding lecture focused on Slovenia and the (im)possibility of its becoming one of the next architectural epicentres. The lecturers were Keith L. Eggener, Hugo Segawa, Harri Kalha, Bart Lootsma, Nott Chaviezel, Mary McLeod, Jose Luis Echeverre, Yasushi Zenno, Rado Riha and Boštjan Vuga of SADAR + VUGA Architects. The book of essays presenting the lecture series was published by the Museum in 2008.

In 2008 in collaboration with the Pekinpah Association, the museum prepared a series of lectures in design theory about sustainable alternatives in design with international lecturers. In 2010 they published a book of lectures Sustainable alternatives in design: It's high time we start losing time featuring texts by: Dieter Rams, Ezio Manzini, Jonathan Chapman, Clive Dilnot, Per Mollerup, Victor Margolin, Cvetka Požar, and Barbara Predan.

In 2010 the Museum of Architecture and Design presented a series of lectures in visual communications theory On Information Design, in collaboration with Petra Černe Oven and Pekinpah Association. The lecture series features six internationally renowned experts in the area of information design, among them also Yuri Engelhardt, Rob Waller, and Karel van der Waarde.

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The 2010 edition of the Biennial of Industrial Design at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana. Biennial of Design (BIO) is one of the few international biennial exhibitions dedicated to showcasing industrial, product, and graphic design work selected by professional design institutions.

The 2010 edition of the Biennial of Industrial Design at the Museum of Architecture and Design. Since the first biennial in 1964 the BIO biennial in Ljubljana has presented exhibitions surveying the state of international design.

The 22th edition of the Biennial of Industrial Design (BIO) at the Museum of Architecture and Design in 2010. The Biennial of Design (BIO) in Ljubljana is one of the worldâs oldest international design events with a tradition of fifty years.

One of the Biennial of Design exhibitions, held at the Museum of Architecture and Design, 2019

Marko Brumen at event organised by Creative Europe Desk Slovenia, Museum of Architecture and Design, 2017.

Matevž Čelik at event organised by Creative Europe Desk Slovenia, Museum of Architecture and Design, 2017.

2 Reels presentation at event organised by Creative Europe Desk Slovenia, Museum of Architecture and Design, 2017

Redesigning Our Future / Cities, government, innovation, an open lecture by Marc Steinberg at the Museum of Architecture and Design, 2015

Tapio Wirkkala, one of the most influential Finnish designers of the 20th century, Exhibition, held at Museum of Architecture and Design, 2005

Eight Slovene designers – (OLoOP Design, Bevk Perović Arhitekti, AKSL Arhitekti, AlmiraSadar, BelaBela, Pleksimanija, Studio Drevo, and Janez Suhadolc presented at the exhibition Common Roots – Design Map of Central Europe at the Design Museum in Holon, 2012

The Renaissance Fužine Castle, 2006.

Corporate identity for the Museum of Architecture and Design by IlovarStritar, 2011

Corporate identity for the Museum of Architecture and Design by IlovarStritar design studio, 2011

The exhibition Beyond Everydayness – Theatre Architecture in Central Europe, which toured Budapest, Prague, Warsaw and Bratislava, was hosted by the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana in 2011, summarizing the results of an extensive multiannual research.

Eminent guest speakers from the United Kingdom, Sweden and Catalonia presented various theoretical and practical approaches in the development of business models in culture at Beyond the Cultural Model Conference organised by Motovila Institute and Center for Creativity, Museum of Architecture and Design, 2018.

Beyond the Cultural Model Conference organised by Center for Creativity and Motovila Institute, Museum of Architecture and Design, 2018.

Creative Europe Desk Slovenia event at Museum of Architecture and Design, 2018.

The courtyard of the Museum of Architecture and Design, 2019.

One of the permanent exhibitions at the Museum of Architecture and Design, 2019.

Architecture workshop organisers

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