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Saša J. Mächtig: Systems, Structures, Strategies

The Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana will present a retrospective exhibition on influential Slovenian designer Saša J. Mächtig from November 26, 2015 to April 3, 2016. The exhibition will showcase Mächtig's modular structures and design strategies through original materials, drawings, models and objects. It will highlight Mächtig's most famous work, the K67 kiosk as well as other street furniture that marked Slovenian and European cities in the latter half of the 20th century. Interviews in the exhibition catalogue will provide insight into Mächtig's systemic approach to design and the continued relevance of his work.

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Saša J. Mächtig: Systems, Structures, Strategies

The Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana will present a retrospective exhibition on influential Slovenian designer Saša J. Mächtig from November 26, 2015 to April 3, 2016. The exhibition will showcase Mächtig's modular structures and design strategies through original materials, drawings, models and objects. It will highlight Mächtig's most famous work, the K67 kiosk as well as other street furniture that marked Slovenian and European cities in the latter half of the 20th century. Interviews in the exhibition catalogue will provide insight into Mächtig's systemic approach to design and the continued relevance of his work.

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Exhibition

Saša J. Mächtig: Systems, Structures, Strategies


26 November 2015 – 3 April 2016
Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana

The Museum of Architecture and Design presents a retrospective Saša J. Mächtig; Systems,
Structures, Strategies. The opening will take place on 26 November 2015 at 19.00 hours. The
exhibition will present the first comprehensive overview of this important Slovenian designer
and his work that still bears significance today. Guests will be greeted by Zoran Janković, the
major of the city of Ljubljana and Julijana Bizjak Mlakar, Minister for Culture. The exhibition will
highlight Mächtig's systemic reasoning that led to his endless modular structures, clearly defined work
practice and research methodology and to his design policy strategies. Apart from his most famous
work, the K67 kiosk which in 1970 was included into the collection of MoMA, the show will also include
other design objects that are still characteristic of the daily life of Slovenian and other European cities.
To present the complexity of Mächtig's body of work, the exhibition will showcase original materials
from his archives, drawings, plans, models and objects. Apart from presenting a retrospective review
of his design achievements at home and abroad, the exhibition will also highlight his work as being still
relevant by design standards of today. The exhibition is curated by Maja Vardjan and Špela Šubic,
with the support of Barbara Predan. The catalogue, including interviews with artist Marjetica Potrč,
designer Thomas Lommée and Juliet Kinchin of MoMA, will present a first comprehensive overview of
his work and engagement in the field of design. More on: http://www.mao.si/For-the-media.aspx.

Saša J. Mächtig (b. 1941), designer and architect, is one of the most important figures in the field of
Slovenian industrial design. His creative process is characterized by a systemic approach; the design
of his objects and strategies always makes them a part of a broader system that can evolve, grow and
change. His most celebrated work is the modular multifunctional unit – Kiosk K67 that marked the
images of Slovenian and other Central European cities throughout the second half of the 20th century.
His other design achievements are also bus stop shelter system Euromodul, reservoirs for useful
waste Ekos that paved the way for Slovenia's waste separation system, film programme advertising
boxes, telephone buffers, garbage bins Žaba (trans. frog), the summer pavilion for the coffeehouse
Evropa in Ljubljana, and many other elements of street furniture. To understand his work, one must
inevitably consider the context of the street – when designing his objects, which were always part of a
broader system, he also explored the perceptions of mobile urban population. Mächtig, himself a
student of Professor Ravnikar and the so-called Course B in design, was one of the founders of
design studies at the Academy of Fine Arts of the University in Ljubljana. He was a Professor of
Planning in Industrial Design and Design Management, and now holds the title of Professor Emeritus.
He was also an active member of executive committees of ICSID and CUMULUS, and one of the
initiators and active organizers of the 17th ICSID World Congress in Ljubljana. Throughout his career
he encouraged debates and promoted the importance of integration between academic knowledge
and that of economy and industry.

The curator Maja Vardjan speaks of a research process that will continue beyond this exhibition. She organized
this process along the following line: systems – structures – strategies, a line followed by other participating
researchers as well. It is a line that demonstrates all by itself the rationale behind my pursuit of
inter/multi/transdisciplinarity, the kind I was taught by my mentor and teacher Edvard Ravnikar from the very
beginning of my studies. From then on, I perceived my work as being a multi-layered intertwined process. This is
why there is such complexity of interest in it, why it spans between architecture and design, between professional
practice and theory, between the personal and the public, so that at the end, to quote Branzi, the outcome is a
delight, not in end products but in the actions of the creative process, not so much in results as in processes I had
the opportunity to study and research while working with my students. Saša J. Mächtig, on multidisciplinarity

Kiosk K67 was a phenomenon. The K67 system pointed out that the commercialization of space is an important
urban value, while at the same time it demonstrated not only its additive nature and adaptation to urban space but
also the temporary nature, fragmentation, and if I may say so, segmentation of the unity – also of the ideology.
Not only was the K67 system an invention in form but also in content, it was a live laboratory at the right time in a
right place. Artist Marjetica Potrč on Kiosk K67; from catalogue interview

MoMA has a long tradition of collecting and exhibiting architecture as a replicable object of design but also a
critical agent in the discourse of sustainability, architectural invention, materials research and urbanism: from the
Frank Lloyd Wright’s folio of American system-built houses (1911-17), and Grete Schutte-Lihotzky’s Frankfurt
Kitchen (1928), to models by Buckminster Fuller, Peter Cook’s 1964 designs for a Plug-in City, and several small-
scale commissions produced specifically for our 2008 exhibition, Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern
Dwelling. The K67 Kiosk and Italy: The New Domestic Landscape are other important milestones within this
trajectory of designs that consider the industrially produced individual unit as well as the urbanistic whole. Juliet
Kinchin, MoMA; from catalogue interview
Nadstrešnica Evropa, avtorja Saše J. Mächtiga; foto: osebni arhiv Saša J. Mächtig
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Organized by: Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia


MAO programme is funded by: Ministry of Culture
MAO programme is sponsored by: Eles, d.o.o., Lafarge Cement, d.o.o., Vipava1894
Partners: Municipality of Ljubljana, University of Ljubljana, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Electrolux,
Ultramarin, d.d., IEDC - Bled School of Management, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Arcytech, d.o.o.,
Europlakat, d.o.o., Arcadia Svetila, d.o.o., Gorenje, d.d., Nova Ljubljanska banka, d.d., JP Ljubljanski potniški
promet, JP Ljubljanska parkirišča in tržnice, Heinlich, d.o.o., Gospodarsko razstavišče, d.o.o., Audax, d.o.o.,
Oris – Kuča arhitekture. Our thanks go to the Technical Museum of Slovenia!

Info:
www.mao.si
ana.kuntaric@mao.si
+386 (0)1 548 42 74; + 386 (0)41 606 436

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