Author Description

The book consists of three parts. The first thirteen chapters cover details from the lives, work and significance of Plečnik‘s seven students that worked in Le Corbusier‘s atelier before and after the Second World war, a period of modernisation and comprehensive changes in Slovenia and Yugoslavia. The second part consists of short biographies and descriptions of the work of six Slovene architects and engineers working in Paris between 1925 and 1938. Three of them, Feri Novak, Janko Bleiweis and Fran Tavčar, worked in the »35 S« atelier. The three that didn‘t, namely Dušan Grabrijan, Boris Kobe and Gizela Šuklje, are nevertheless closely tied to the underlying story. The third part, similarly featuring short biographies and description of work, is dedicated to five Croatian architects (Zvonimir Kavurić, Ernest Weissmann, Juraj Neidhardt, Ksenija Grisogono and Krsto Filipović) and two Serbian architects (Milorad Pantović and Branko Petričić) that worked in Le Corbusier‘s atelier, thus positioning the story in a wider Yugoslavian and international context.