maandag 18 maart 2013

Difference between buildings in Slovenia

Map of Europe, 1900
The most widespread style for houses after WWII is the socialistic style:  high gray blocks in cities. On the countryside people are building similar houses as in US and in rest of Europe. It is also very popular to build enviromentally friendly houses . The most important Slovenian architects are Joze Plecnik, Maks Fabjani, Edvard Ravnikar, Vladimir Subic etcetera.  They got their inspiration in big cities of the Austrian Empire especially in Vienna and Prague. They made almost all important buildings in Ljubljana, Maribor, Goriza etcetera. An important influenced for buildings and houses is that thezstill have relief. In mountains area house are higher than in Great Hungary plain. Here houses are bigger and lower. Houses at seaside are usually build in Italian style, because Italians live in that area too. 


Map of Slovenia, 1900
There are different styles in different parts of the country, because the landscape of slovenia is very diverse. In the north-west, there are mainly mountains, and in the south-west there are marshes. People have to make different houses because of pracitcal reasons. Also, in the very north-east of slovenia, you`ll see rather different styles than the rest of slovenia. This is because that part has a completely different culture. In this north-east part, the architecture is similar to the styles in Hungary, and in the rest of slovenia you`ll find a lot of similarities with Austria and Germany. This is because in the past, those two were part of these two countries.

sources:
http://fccorn.people.wm.edu/images/EuropeMap-1900.jpg
http://www.llmap.org/images/EastCentralEurope/SourceMap_Page99.jpg

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