Protocol buildings created by the best architects and artists

Brdo Castle and estate, Vila Podrožnik and facilities on the Republic Square are ambitious premises of the national team created by the best architects, landscape architects and artists of their time, according to architect, curator and publicist Miloš Kosecwhich is within this year’s central theme of the festival Open House of Slovenia – Heritage for the Future designed a thematic festival weekend State spaces.

Today he will take the participants along the villa Podroznik. What do these spaces tell about the relationship between the country and the space? Kosec replies that quality and ambitious masonry for the needs of the state long ago before we got an independent state, as well as that in this direction the independent state has done the least, Kosec replies.

Although Slovenian architecture and design have a long and internationally extremely recognizable tradition and could be used as the best ambassador of the country and culture, just like the Scandinavian country, they remain a completely unused opportunity. At least through architecture and space, the state does not show much confidence, Kosec emphasizes, it seems invisible as if it would not trust in its existence, or behaves as a squash that occupies the premises in the past and does not know when it will be evicted.

There is also a question: Why are the state’s central facilities often overly closed and protected for citizens?