In adding his works to the list in 2021, UNESCO described his work as “an example of a human-centered urban design that successively changed the identity of the city … based on an architectural dialogue with the older city while serving the needs of emerging modern 20th-century society. Plečnik is actually tied with Frank Lloyd Wright in having the most works (eight) listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List of any architect, and all of Plečnik’s are in Ljubljana. Instead, for more than 30 years he worked incrementally on urban projects large and small, creating an accretion of interventions that offers valuable lessons in defining urban identity that effortlessly graphs onto an existing context, to which subsequent architects and urban designers have added. Plečnik did not create a sweeping, grand vision for a new city. (With Yugoslavia’s dissolution in 1990, Slovenia became an independent country, with Ljubljana its capital). With his experience and study of architecture throughout Europe, Plečnik applied what he learned to Ljubljana to raise its architectural stature and give it a more Mediterranean quality. Plečnik designed and built projects all over Eastern Europe, but in Ljubljana he excelled as an urban designer. Related Article Ljubljana Architecture City Guide: 23 Projects to Discover in the Capital of Slovenia
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