Vile v Mariboru

Zgodba o mestu in ljudeh ter nekem drugem času

Exhibited during Festival of photography Maribor
at Rajzefiber Biro, Slovenia.

Slovenian

Vile, ki s svojo lepoto in karizmo nosijo ne samo vpogled v neki drugi čas, so zame tudi arhitekturni biser. Ko sem jih občudovala, sem se spraševala, le kakšno zgodbo nosijo. In tako se je začelo raziskovanje ne samo hiš in zgodb ljudi iz drugega časa, ampak predvsem spoznavanje mesta.

Prvo kar je prišlo na plano, je ponavljanje iste zgodbe o razdeljenem mestu, v čigar prostoru je močno prisotna zgodba o konfliktih, kjer je vedno nekdo proti nekomu, kar je še posebej izraženo v obdobju velikih sprememb. Potujoč sto let nazaj v čas, ko se je iz razpada ene države rodila druga in iz te tretja, je ta obmejni prostor zaznamovan veliko bolj intenzivneje kot sem sprva domnevala, zato sem se osredotočila na obdobje od približno 1900 pa do 1945, čas velikih sprememb in hkrati obdobje, ki je zame eno izmed najbolj estetskih obdobij, od koder me fascinira ne samo moda in način obnašanja, ampak predvsem arhitektura, za katero menim, da je ogrodje mesta, skozi katerega se pretaka energija prostora. In če je arhitektura danes predvsem pod vplivom trendov, so takratne gradnje pričale o velikem znanju. Energetske linije in točke, na katerih so te vile zgrajene, so le delček, kako so takrat mojstri arhitekture usklajevali prostor in usklajevali celotno mesto kot en organizem, ki dihal je s človekom.

English

With beauty and charisma, Villa is to me not only insight from another time but also architectural pearl. I admired them and so often wondered what kind of story it will reveal. So I began to research not only the story of houses and people who lived there but also the place where I was born.

The first thing that came to the surface was the repeated story of divided city that still today have the same battles ''us against them'', and that conflict was especially evident in the period of time know as the great change. So I went hundred years back in time, when one country collapse and give birth to the second and that to the third. This border area is marked much more intensively than I first assumed, so I focused on the period from around 1900 until 1945, a time of big changes for such a small place named Maribor. That period of time fascinated me with graceful behavior, fashion and especially architecture. To me, architecture is the skeleton of the city through which flows the energy and creates a space. And if architecture is now under influence of trends, in that time was visible possession of big knowledge, not only about how to build it, but where to build it. Energy lines and points on which villas were built reveal just a fraction that masters of architecture had when creating space in coordination and harmonization with the entire city as a single organism, that breads in and out with a person. Some villas bear a remarkable story, other are only mention in documents, yes each one is interesting and special.