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faculty on Aškerèeva Street offered very modest possibilities. Almost thirty years later, in 1948, the Municipality of Ljubljana
allocated the use of a former primary school on Zoisova Street to the Faculty. After improvements to the building, the Faculty
enlarged the available space tenfold. After WWII cabinets were added and later the attic was adapted for drawing studios.
The demand that every student has allocated work space at the Faculty, the real increase of students, teachers and junior
researchers numbers, dilapidation of the existing building and lack of workshops, laboratories, computers and other high-tech
equipment, conditioned the construction of the Eastern extension with the library and lecture theatre. With the imminent construction
of the Western extension we will round up our spatial possibilities and needs.
uvod introduction
The graduate course lasts nine semesters. A student has to pass some 40 exams before graduation. The first three years of the
course are intended for education on general professional knowledge and skills needed by a practising architect, while the
fourth year and ninth semester are oriented into in-depth knowledge in architecture, urbanism and design. The backbone of the
programme is the Studio, in which students test knowledge gained from theoretical and methodological subjects on practical
examples. The Studio is led by a teacher with publicly acknowledged work and experience in the field of artistic creativity. The
subject is organised as a tutored seminar, with students from various years working together. They choose their tutor (mentor)
independently. The graduate course is completed with a diploma thesis with specified content and volume. Graduates are
granted the title university diploma of engineer of architecture. The Faculty also provides a two-year specialist and master’s
course and a four-year PhD course. Alongside the regular course, the Faculty is also involved with research work and facultative
engagements in numerous domestic and international workshops and Summer schools.
The Faculty of architecture in Ljubljana is already today part of the international university and research network in which the
physical location of a University centre is losing in relevance. At the Faculty we are pursuing increased co-operation between
faculties with ties between the best foreign universities, to increase or maintain the high level of domestic excellence in research
and teaching assignments. Thus we are ensuring synchronisation of the faculty course programme and method of teaching with
European university standards, above all to enable easier transition on accession to the European Union and easier integration
in ongoing European inter-university and inter-faculty programmes. We are developing various kinds of co-operation and are
present in European integration processes through various programmes (Socrates, Tempus, Ceepus, etc.). We are also introducing
intensive international exchange of students on the graduate and post-graduate levels.
Based on internationally comparable programme guidelines, foreign teaching experiences and European standards, and above
all principles of ensuring competitiveness for our graduates on the European level, we are gradually adapting our course
programme to new conditions. Hereby numerous new issues dealing with technological possibilities have emerged, brought
about by modern tele-communication means, increased individuation in modern society, new ecological sensibility and needs for
new theoretical models for understanding, monitoring and directing these processes.
The question about the pertinence of the discipline and protection of the title architect are being raised ever more often. Many
professions have already adopted the right to our title, while many technical disciplines are trying to gain it. We are witness to
serious misunderstanding of architectural work and our societal mission. Architecture is a discipline where functional-technical and
artistic components intertwine. While the first can be the subject of numerous other professions participating in building and urban
management, the artistic expression is inherent to architects, trained for the purpose. Similar to experiencing other fields of artistic
6 Fakulteta za arhitekturo, Ljubljana Faculty of Architecture, Ljubljana