Winner of the Architectural League of New York Deborah D. Norden Fund sponsorship, Plečnik Projects is a research effort turned book focused on study of a two-and-a-half mile sequence of infrastructural public works along the Ljubljanica and Gradaščica rivers by twentieth century architect architect Jože Plečnik in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The research is anchored by a sectional survey of two rivers from a rural condition to the city center and back out to the countryside, mapping the spatial and material variations in the vertical section and their effects on the primarily horizontal behavior of water. The Ljubljana projects, an operative encyclopedia of a resilient infrastructural systems, constitutes and under-explored contribution to the urban edge discussion, demonstrating methodologies that capture the spatial, programmatic, and viscerally experiential nature of waterfront sites even as they address the pragmatic and quantitative requirements of water management.
