 Jan 31 2025 - Mar 15 2025

 Ljubljana

Boris Podrecca, an internationally acclaimed Slovenian-Italian-Austrian architect, is being honoured with a major exhibition at Ljubljana's Rog Centre to mark his 85th birthday.

The exhibition To Turn a River Delta into a Sea features 85 of his works that he created between 1980 and 2024. The focus is on his significant influence on the promotion and development of Slovenian architecture.

The exhibition was designed by architects Katarina Čakš and Timotej Jevšenak in collaboration with Podrecca.

Podrecca was born in 1940 in Belgrade to a Slovenian father from Trieste and a Serb mother from the Herzegovina region.

He spent his childhood in Ljubljana, his youth in Trieste and his professional career in Vienna, where he is still active today.

The display brings an insight into his extensive and varied oeuvre of more than 350 projects across Europe and the world.

His many projects in Slovenia include a redesign of Tartini Square in Piran, the main square in Idrija, the Dessa Gallery and Villa Urbana in Ljubljana, the Brič winery near Koper and the Faculty of Medicine in Maribor.

The exhibition mimics the Semperian spatial grid, whose idea of structure and knotting relates to the fundamental ideas of Gottfried Semper, one of Podrecca's key role models.

Podrecca is also known for designing objects such as chairs and glasses. He sees those as "small architectures, small functional witnesses".