Architect Tom Kovac and the new World Trade Center- The voice- New York "Tom Kovac is the only Aus- tralian architect invited to create a design for the new Of World Trade Center in New York. Seventeen of the most Year 2 No 17 January 2002 famous architects from around the world have been invited to create a design for Sonia Leber & David Chesworth, a new World Trade Center. The exhibition of all the The Masters Voice projects will open at the pres- tigious Max Protetch Gallery Sit, Ubu, sit. Good dog. in New York on the 17th of January 2002. " Mitchell Whitelaw CANBERRA /REALTIME; WWW.REALTIMEARTS.NET/ – Visitors to Canberra, or new ar- rivals, are often anxious to find out where ‘town’ is, where they are in relation to the middle of things, the action, the hub, the urban focus. There’s a common conversation that goes along the lines of, “So where’s the city?” “Well…” (apologetically) “there’s Civic…” Civic is the diffuse middle of this diffuse city - a loose mix of malls, ‘ere…gedaround ya lazy dog / The words are there as a cafes and bus terminals; visitors Chook-chook-chook-chook! / scaffolding for the sonic greet it with some suspicion, as if Back…back…back…good boy, forms-the elements which there’s actually a real urban cen- Whoa!” It addresses us directly, in do the be-havioural work- tre somewhere else which is be- a language and a sonic shape that but also for the speaker’s ing kept from them. is completely familiar. It’s just that own benefit, a warmly The retail and restaurant cluster is we’re not usually the addressee, ironic monologue. around Garema Place, the wide here. A throng of animal-voices: “You’re not going to be pedestrian plaza that is truly, in so- calls, exhortations, orders, signals, able to walk, your sto- cial, street-life terms, the middle admonishments, affectionate mach’s that big … You aren’t … /INTERNET PAGE/ – Tom Kovac set- of town. Its image has been domi- jibes. In fact they’re real-world re- Eh?” At the same time these calls tled in Australia in 1970. The re- nated by petty crime and drugs, are full of questions, invitations to markable plasticity of Tom Kovac’s cordings of people talking to their architectural works, which combine until recently; the Place has been animals, with the sonic presence conversation, spaces for exchange; ‘cleaned up,’ and local govern- there’s this urge for an interchange, his research on light and surprising of the animals themselves edited sense of spatial flow are, in his ment seems intent on encouraging out. There’s a kind of hole in the which in the absence of an articu- a more lively and non-threatening view, influenced by the sculptures air where an animal should be, but late partner, puts words in its of Richard Serra, Donald Judd, public space. There’s certainly a it’s only occasionally clear what mouth, or maw. pulse now: lots of fire-twirling, the Barbara Hepworth, or perhaps even kind of animal, and anyway it So these candid, charged in- by the works of Frederick Kiesler. odd band, packs of skateboarders keeps changing. A phantom me- terspecies moments emerge from and freestyle bike riders, hopping nagerie, chooks, dogs, elephants, inconspicuous slots in a mallscape; Architecture appears, in this case, around the steps and benches like horses, who-knows-what. That’s their sonic shapes stand out against to be an energetic field of gravita- biomechanical goats. As well, what passing humans walk into, the ‘public’ murmur of social ver- tional forces or surfaces and vol- public sculptures have been mul- what alerts and draws them in, a bosity. As Tony MacGregor (Ex- umes, voids and solids, transparen- tiplying in the Place precinct, part virtual form made from silly, an- ecutive Producer, Radio Eye, ABC cies and densities, all dissolving of a public art program being run thropomorphised animal-talk, but Radio National) pointed out at the into the same simultaneous percep- by local government. The latest of a form which points to the real work’s opening, Canberra is nomi- tion, where modulated masses are these is The Master’s Voice, a presence of one of those inscruta- nally a location for public, social, affirmed, and limits fended off and sound installation by Melbourne- ble ‘others.’ civilised speech; yet the House of endowed with motion. After having based collaborators David Ches- Leber and Chesworth have edited Reps is dubbed the “bear pit.” designed the Succhi store in 1991, worth and Sonia Leber. the calls together into short com- Meanwhile these real interchanges or the Atlas House in 1996 Ń both positions, layered sequences have an immediacy that the scripted built in Melbourne Ń Tom Kovac Sonia Leber & David which follow a passerby the length drivel of most political discourse is now building a large complex at Chesworth, The Masters of the work. There are arrange- lacks. Most striking, though, is the St Kilda Marina, including stores, ments of sense and subject but restaurants, etc.; he is also build- Voice, Sonia Leber presence which the work projects, ing the Little Latrobe Apartments especially sound: pitch, contour, the way it subtly deforms this coolly The work is physically almost sur- in Melbourne. This is an apartment cadence, rhythm. The ‘sensible’ anthropocentric public plaza, turn- building characterised by its undu- reptitious: 11 straps of stainless inflections of speech get stretched ing civilised language into silly steel grille, inset into the pavement lating facade whose two concrete into wild glisses and warbling noises, and turning people, mo- sides contrast with the lateral glass and up an adjacent wall. It borders melisma; syllables shorten into mentarily, into animals. a pedestrian thoroughfare through opening, thus creating a distorted abstract sonic punctuation. There’s The Master’s Voice, sound instal- kinematic effect. low-key retail and cafes, a transi- a bit of outright mimesis, growls lation by Sonia Leber & David The Slovenia-born Australian tional space. Crouching below and clucks and budgie whistles, but Chesworth in association with H2o Tom Kovac is the only one. His waist level, it trips up passers-by, more often the calls work 2 strata architects, Pocket Park, Corner architecture dementia has no induces double-takes, private puz- at once, language and sound, hu- Garema Place & Akuna Street, parallel in Australia! zled glances. It calls out: “Come man and animal. Civic, Canberra. /More on page 4/ 2

January 2002 Marjetica Potrc from Slovenija will exhibit Concealed and Forgotten Persons her art work at gary he had the royal consorts rec- Visual Arts Festival - Barbara of oncile, for which Barbara and her Perth (1388 - 1451) father Herman II remained for- Queen and Empress ever grateful to him. Neverthe- Perth Institute of less, since then Barbara’s influ- Contemporary Art PICA Who Decided the Fate of Europe ence in the Hungarian Court was January 25 2002 By Dr. Jozko Šavli very curtailed. In 1421, she could not hinder the marriage of her young daughter Elisabeth with Albert V of Habsburg (Al- slika v nova stevilka bertine line), the ruler of Aus- tria. Already in 1420 the friend- ship between Sigmund and the Polish King was dissolved. On the Diet in Breslau, where Sigmund was elected to umpire the quarrel between Poland and the Teutonic Kinghts, he found himself on part of the latter. In the year 1429 Sigmund suffered a defeat from the Turks. In his opinion Alexander’s (Prince of Wallachia) behaviour caused this defeat and he imposed this burden on him. However, Alex- Marjetica Potrč is a Ljubljana ander was a vassal of the Polish based artist and architect. At the King and under his protection. moment she is an artist in resi- A very offended Sigmund tried dence at the Kuenstlerhaus Barbara and her daughter Elisabeth are lead to Mass to persuade the Grand Duke Bethanien in Berlin. (Chronicle of Council of Costance, of Ulric von Richental,1482). Vitold of Lithuania, to secede She is a winner of the Boss Prize In the year 1396, while fighting from Poland. Unfortunately, the 2000 of the Guggenheim Mu- against the Turks near Nikopol at trusted to him by his daughter latter perished by falling of his seum, New York. Her work has the Danube in Bulgaria, Herman Barbara: “Sigmund, the Hungarian horse. In 1431, in Milan, Sig- been featured throughout Europe II Count of Celje, (now belong- King, cannot reckon support from mund and Barbara were crowned and the United States, including ing to Slovenia), saved the life of his grandees and therefore never King and Queen of (an- shows at the Center for Curatorial Sigmund of Luxemburg, King would assault Poland from the cient Kingdom of Middle Studies Museum, Bard College, of Hungary and son of Emperor South, otherwise he will loose his Franks). In 1433, in Rome, the Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Carl IV. King Sigmund rewarded throne”. In this way the Polish Pope crowned them Emperor (1996); Skulptur. Projekte in Herman generously by bestowing King had time to direct his armed and Empress. They treaded in Muenster (1997); La casa, il him with many properties. forces toward the North, and on this way in front of the Christian Corpo, il Cuore: Konstruktion der Sigmund’s wife, the Hungarian July15th he defeated near Tann- Europe, represented by the Holy Identitaeten, Museum Moderner Queen Mary had passed away a enberg (Grunwald) the knights of Roman Empire. However, more Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna year before in 1395 and left him the potent Teutonic Order, who bad news awaited Barbara. In (1999); Urban Visions, Worcester behind as a widower. She was the threatened his kingdom. 1435, her father Count Herman Art Museum, Worcester, Massa- daughter and heiress of Louis the In 1414, Sigmund and Barbara II of Celje and his friend, the chusetts (1999); and Guggenheim Great († 1382), from the Anjou- were crowned in Aachen as King Polish King, passed away. The Museum, NY (2001). In addition, Sicily line. and Queen of Germany (ancient forces of her consort declined too. Potrč has received numerous In 1405, Sigmund married Bar- Kingdom of Eastern Franks). Af- Now the aspirations of the awards, including grants from the bara of Celje, Herman’s daugh- terwards they proceeded to the Habsburgs to strive after the Hun- Pollock-Krasner Foundation ter, born in 1388. Barbara was a Council in Constance, where at that garian crown became more and (1993 and 1999), Parque de la very beautiful, clever and also so- point in time the Czech reformer more evident. In an effort to stop Memoria Sculpture Prize, Buenos phisticated noblewoman. She Jan Hus was condemned to the the Habsburgs and the German Aires (2000), and The Hugo Boss spoke Slovenian, German and stake. Such an action caused fights penetration towards East, her con- Prize 2000, Guggenheim Mu- Latin. Later on she also learned to with the Hussites in Bohemia for sort nominated in 1436 as seum. speak other languages and was an many long years until finally they Princes of the Holy Roman adversary to his mother, Ann of were defeated by Sigmund’s gen- Empire Barbara’s brother Schaumburg, a Bavarian coun- eral Jan Zizka. In 1419, Sigmund Frederic II and her nephew tess, who introduced German cus- and Barbara were crowned as King Ulric II. This was obviously done toms to the courts of Celje. On and Queen of Bohemia, since on her request and it paved the Barbara’s request, her father re- Sigmund’s father, Emperor Charles way for the County of Celje to IV, was also the Czech King, became the immediate Principal- moved the German chancellor and known as Charles I. ity of the Empire. Although, the customs which were placed upon The defeat of the Hussites invigor- Counts of Celje were the former the courts and castles in Celje. His ated the German faction, not only vassals of Inner Austria (ancient army was formed of Slovenian sol- in Bohemia but also in Hungary. Carantania), ruled by Duke diers only. This faction saw in Barbara, and Frederic V of Habsburg On Easter in 1410, Herman II of not without good reason, its prin- (Leopoldinian line), who tarried Celje was invited to Cracow by his cipal adversary. It was their doing at that time in Palestine. Once re- niece Ann of Celje, the Polish that she was calumniated persist- turned, he did not recognize Queen. During his visit he con- ently as unfaithful to her consort. Sigmund’s nomination and began fided in her husband Vladislaus The enraged Sigmund banished her to fight with the Counts of Celje and their infant daughter Elisabeth for a long period of time. II Jagiello, the Polish King, valu- far away to the town of Varadin. Barbara tried to hinder the able information, which was en - When the Polish King visited Hun Habsburgs in organizing a more 3

January 2002 potent block and she planned to T I G R unite Hungary, Bohemia and Po- The Liberation Movement of Primorska land under a unique crown. But now she was stopped by Sigmund (Slovenian Littoral) during Italian Fascism and the and interned to the Bohemian Persecution of their Members in Communist Yugoslavia town of Znojmo. In 1437 Sigmund By Dr. Jozko Savli died. On the 1st day of 1438 the Hungarian Diet elected the new The organization TIGR (tiger) ad- tion in 1922 with the rise of fas- They were shot on the 6th of Sep- king Albert I. of Habsburg, the dressed to the president of Slovenia, cism in Italy, which continued from tember 1930 near the village of Mr. Milan Kucan, three letters suc- then on. Slovenian banks and com- Bazovica close to . After the consort of Barbara’s daughter cessively (1997, 1998, 1999), re- panies were officially abolished and war a beautiful memorial was Elisabeth. After a few months he questing him to mediate for a me- their capital confiscated. All erected at the site of the execution. also was elected King of Ger- morial to be erected in honour of Slovenian schools were shut down Following these executions the fas- many, where he was known as the members of organization TIGR, and it was forbidden to speak cist tyranny against the Slovenians Albert II. The Empress and who were sentenced to death in the Slovenian in public. Some 70.000 increased. Some members of the Queen Barbara could not bear this second trial at Opcine (Opicina) in Slovenians, being robbed of their TIGR association were cooperative action and escaped to Poland. Trieste, on the Italian side of the existence fled to Yugoslavia. A ter- with the British Secret Service and There she was received in a sol- border. The magazine ‘Primorski ror reigned over everything that was were sending them information emn way by King Vladislaus III rodoljub’ (No 5. Koper, 2001) pub- called Slovenian. Physical attacks about the military strength of the Jagiello. The same year Albert II lished these letters, but it is not were carried out on nationally con- fascist regime. There was no short- invaded Bohemia and crowned evident if Mr. Kucan or the Gov- scious Slovenians. age of confinements, the torture of himself as King of Bohemia. But ernment in Ljubljana replied to prisoners was a ‘normal’ occur- the Hussites rebelled again and them. For this reason it is appro- July 13, 1920, Slovenian National rence, but the resistance did not turned to the Polish King. Albert priate that the readers become fa- House in flames. It was set ablaze cease. miliar with the wider problems in by Italian fascists of Trieste, before The Second Court Case II was constrained to ask for ar- in 1941 in Trieste mistice, because the Turks in- this context (Writers remark). the fascist regime took power in Italy (1920). This arson was the first Slovenian men were also con- vaded Hungary near demned to death in the Second anew. He went to combat them At the end of the First World War sign for persecution of Slovenians in 1918 the Austro Hungarian Mon- in the Littoral (Venezia Giulia, in Court Case of Trieste. They were and died on his return on diarrhea. archy crumbled. Parts of the Italian) which went on until WW2. shot on December 15, 1941, in Hungary was anew without a ruler. Slovenian territory, as the regions Opcine (Opicina). A special tribu- However, Queen Elisabeth gave of Kranjska (Krain) and Spodnja People in the country and in small nal was sent from Rome to Trieste birth to a son after Albert’s death Štajerska (Lower ), became towns still persisted to make use of in 1941 and a second Court Case and called him Ladislaus Posthu- part of the new state of Yugoslavia. the Slovenian language. A revolt was in process. After thorough in- mous. She wanted to assure him Other parts of Slovenian territory, and resistance against the fascist vestigations 60 people were ar- the kingdom, and let the child as the regions of Istra (Istria) and terror grew among them. The lib- raigned and further 10 were accused crown. But mother Barbara in- Primorska (Littoral) were annexed eration organization TIGR was es- in abstentia. Nine were condemned sisted to nominate Vladislaus III to Italy. The centre of this area was tablished, they fought for Primorska to death but some of them were later Jagiello as the new Hungarian Trieste consisting of a mixed popu- in hope to have it joined with Yu- on commuted to life imprisonment. king. It came to a struggle between lation, where the majority spoke goslavia. Its activities started with On the 15th of December 1941 the Polish party in Hungary and Italian. There were about 80,000 acts of sabotage in 1924 especially again some people were shot at the Slovenian speaking people, making concentrating on burning former Obcina. These victims still have no the partisans of Queen Elisabeth. memorial despite ‘good’ relations They were conquered by the party up more than one third of the city’s Slovenian schools in country areas, population, with a density of where they served now exclusivly between Italy and the former Yu- and the Hungarian crown was only as Italian education facilities. goslavia as well as today’s Slovenia. given to the Polish King. In 1442, 210,000 inhabitants. In Trieste were present all central They smuggled Slovenian literature Queen Elisabeth died, her mind and books from Yugoslavia and dis- In the same year fascist Italy did and body was completely ex- organizations belonging to Slove- nian people from the whole terri- tributed them among the popula- attack Yugoslavia and occupied hausted from all the countless tory. Here were the establishments tion, etc. TIGR was trying to avoid parts of its territory. The majority struggles and fighting. of well known Slovenian banks, at human casualties, however, they of the TIGR members joined the Empress Barbara left Poland and the forefront the Jadranska banka primarily responded to fascist vio- fighters of the Slovenian Liberation settled down in her Castle Melnik lence. Yet, there were some human Front. However, their Slovenian (Adriatic Bank) and many financial patriotism was ‘dangerous’ to the in Bohemia. Vladislaus III institutes. The Slovenian-Dalma- sacrifices. Based on those acts of Jagiello, King of Poland and Hun- sabotage numerous convictions Communist Party, which was at that tian Boat building Company Dal- were made and often innocent peo- time totally devoted to Stalin and gary, fell while fighting the Turks matia had its head quarters here and near Varna (Bulgaria), in 1444. In ple had to suffer. controlled the Liberation Front. The so did the Slovenian Shipping Com- A typical case was the memorial of tragedy was obvious after the war, Hungary he was succeeded by pany Oceania, the transport com- the Italian soldiers that died at Krn, when Primorska (except Trieste and Ladislaus Posthumous († 1457), pany Balkan and many other busi- which was struck by lightning. The Gorica) became part of Yugoslavia. and in Poland by his brother nesses. The Czechs had also their fascists blamed the people in the In the communist totalitarian Yugo- Casimir IV Jagiello († 1492). capital invested here, which was nearby village of Dreznica and ac- slavia it was not permitted to speak The latter was married to primarily obvious in the ivnostenskŕ cused them to have detonated the or write about the struggle of the Elisabeth of Austria, daughter of Bank. memorial. Long court proceedings members belonging to the TIGR Albert II and Elisabeth, a niece of Trieste (Trst), Slovenian followed with the intention of sub- association. Some of the members Barbara. National House (Narodni dom) duing the people. were even persecuted and the anti Barbara of Celje, Queen and built by the architect Max The First Court Case fascist struggle of TIGR members Empress, died in 1451. For a cen- Fabiani, in 1904 in 1930 in Trieste was not recognized. They received This hall was the seat of the Fascist daily ‘Il Popolo di Trieste’ no means from the Yugoslav comu- tury she stopped the German feu- Slovenian Theater and seat of many dal penetration towards East. spread most of the hate and incite- munist regime for their existence associations in the city. ment against the Slovenian popu- and some of them deserted the Meaning, together with her cousin The centre of the Slovenian national lation. TIGR decided to intimidate Ann, Queen of Poland, they had and cultural activities was a splen- country and fled to the Italian side the editors by planting a bomb in of the border or anywhere else in already at that time influence on did palace in the downtown core 1930 into the administration lobby. called Narodni dom (National the world. They were accused of the outcome of the battle near After the set up one of the editors treason (for collaborating with the Tannenberg, and Barbara was also House), containing the administra- by the name of Neri came into the tions of all Slovenian cultural or- lobby by chance, he got injured and British) and especially of (Slove- hostile against the Habsburgs. ganizations including the Slovenian nian) nationalism visa versa ‘inter- Only in 1527 they had their first died later on. playhouse. However, in July 1920 The fascist regime initiated the re- nationalism’ of the Communist chance to win the Hungarian the fascists of Trieste attacked nowned ‘Special Court for Protec- Party. The anathema of TIGR mem- crown. She is interred in the Ca- Narodni dom and burned it to the tion of the State’ against the mem- bers lasted to the very last day of thedral of St. Vitus in Prague. ground. This was the signal for per- bers of TIGR. It convicted many Yugoslavia. Italy and Yugoslavia She definitely made a difference secution of Slovenians in the whole persons to long years of incarcera- came to an agreement immediately in the fate of Europe. region and received its official sanc- tion and some of them to death. after the war, confirming that they /cont. page 4/ 4 January 2002

/cont. from the page 3/ would not publicize the wrongdo- ing of the fascist regime towards the PRESS RELEASE Tom Kovac is the only Slovenians and the atrocities of the 14 January 2002 Yugoslav Communist regime to- Australian architect wards the Italians in Istria. Exhibition - invited to create a proposal for a new In this context it is necessary to A new “World Trade understand the relationship of the Center” World Trade Center Slovenian Communist Party to- Max Protetch Gallery, wards the TIGR association after New York WW2, it was only carrying out the Opening 17th January 2002 directives from Belgrade. After Slovenias’ secession from Yugosla- via the anathema of the TIGR mem- bers ceased at least to such a de- Architectural proposals for a New gree that the anti fascist struggle of World Trade Center will be un- their fathers could now be openly veiled in New York this week in told to the younger generation. a major gallery exhibition, which However, since the end of the war opens on Thursday at the Max more than half a century has past. Protetch Gallery in Manhattan, At least two to three generations of New York. This historic event will the littoral population has been include some of the most influen- raised under the communist Yugo- tial names in global architecture slav regime without teaching them such as Daniel Libeskind and any historical knowledge and leav- Zaha Hadid, as well as select ing any memories of persons, who members of a new generation of were so close to them. architects whose work is redefin- Will the initiators, who are press- ing architecture such as Gregg ing for the erection of a great me- Lynn, Asymptote and the only morial in honour of the TIGR mem- Australian invited Tom Kovac. bers in the Karst region, be able to The invitations to create a pro- resurrect what the regime wanted posal for a new World Trade to stifle and has to a great degree Center came in October last year managed to choke already? Time and emerged as a response to Sep- will tell. tember 11 attacks, which almost immediately called for sugges- tions of how to rebuild lower Manhattan and how to respond to NEWS issues relating to business, office Ljubljana – The invention of a space, transportation and the ex- His work is widely published and complex raw data of the previous natural potion based on mineral pectations for a memorial to the exhibited, most recently at the WTC complex, its thousands of victims of the attack. water high in magnesium which prestigious Venice Biennale in victims and its re-articulation acts as a preventive and healing In his official farewell address last into new spatial potentials which month, at St Paul’s Chapel, New Italy, with an up coming show fo- agent for kidney stones has been cusing on new generation archi- are now opening possibilities in patented by two Slovene medical York former mayor Rudolph W tects at the Pompidou Center in architecture. The project proposes experts. The patent has been issued Giuliani made headlines, calling a public response that is not at the end of November by the Aus- for a memorial at the former France early next year. Explain- trian patent office for a period of ing his work Kovac says that monolithic but is rather permeated World Trade Center site and a call with public space and programs 20 years and will be valid in all EU for art before business. “Digital technologies are pro- countries. Pharmacist and medical foundly impacting on all aspects at its base. Our aim was to create biochemistry specialist Damjan “I really believe we shouldn’t of culture and this has a direct re- a me morial to loss so that the Jurjec and Dr. Bojan Tepes have think about this site out there, sponse on how these new tools are memories being honoured are been in the past years studying the right behind us, right behind us used and how they are transform- retained and kept alive long after effects of Donat Mg - a mineral right here as a site for economic ing urbanism and the notion of the events of September 11 pass water containing magnesium pro- development” he said. “We cities themselves. In our work we into history.” Professor of Archi- duced by Slovenia’s food producer should think about a soaring, recognise that architecture and tecture, Prof. Leon van Schaik, Kolinska - on the prevention of the RMIT University, Australia, re-formation of kidney stones. monumental beautiful memorial cities are process oriented fluid that just draws millions of people environments which are redefin- comments that Tom Kovac‘s Donat Mg alone is known for con- scheme for the new World Trade taining a huge amount of healing here, that just want to see it. If the ing our lives and our thoughts memorial was done correctly about conception of the environ- Center is risk-taking and pre- substances. cisely about what quickens our you’ll have a all the economic ment.” Created at RMIT Univer- Pusan – In the 2002 Football development you want, and you blood when we visit New York. sity’s Interactive Information “There are moments when there World Cup in Japan and South can do the office spaces in a lot Institute, using advanced soft- Korea, Slovenia will play in group different places”, R Giuliani. is a subliminal reminder of the ware systems Kovac and his team shards that were all that remained B together with Spain, Paraguay mapped the complex organisa- and South Africa. Slovenia will thus of the WTC. Shared edges be- Tom Kovac is sympathetic with tional and human interrelation- play its first-ever world-cup match Giuliani‘s proposition comment- tween the chassis and the spiral- with Spain on 2 June. Slovene pla- ing that” this is an unprecedented ships of the previous World Trade ling plane are enshrouded in glass, yers will go on to face South Af- and defining moment for interest Center into dynamic spiralling the obvious form is not. So it is rica on 8 June and take on Para- in social, political, economic, and inclining spatial interface, which that in Kovac`s design there is a guay on the 12th. symbolic roIe of architecture. It challenges conventional geometri- contemplation of what was, but no shows how eager the public is to cal defini-tions.Tom Kovac ex- re-creation. The dynamics that ex- January 16th 1992 interact with architects and their plains the scheme as “A continu- isted are represented, but the de- ideas. Kovac who is Internation- ing changing surface, all of sign poses a question about the Australia recognised ally regarded for his architecture, which is unique in it’s shape and future: what spatial configurations Republic of Slovenia is one of the world’s most chal- size, and endless in its variation play to the new mental spaces that lenging young architects today. There is an interaction between are now emerging.”