Author Description

Alojzij Hren, a builder from Ribnica, completed almost two hundred different developements in the Ribnica Valley. His company accomplished them between the wars. He was widly acclaimed for their high building standards and came into contact with functionalist architects of the time, such as Ivo spinčič, Josip Costaperaria, Maks Strenar and Rado Kregar and after the war even with the famous Jože Plečnik. His engaged wasn't only with the contemporary "functionalust" style of the 30s but also tradfitional building heritage, depending on his customerr's wishes or even demands. Amongst his famous modernist successes are the Hren residential villa (1930), retail store Rigler in Dolenja vas (1931) and residential villa with a dentist'sd surgery Novak in Ribnica (1933-35). Flat roofs were planned on many of this buildings, such as the Notre Dame sister's home in Blate or Villa Novak on Šolska Street in Ribnica, but were never exectuted. After the Second World War, under the new socialist circumstances, his company was confiscated.