IN MEMORIAM JUTA KRULC

Juta Krulc, widely considered one of the most influential and important Slovene architects and planners, died in Žiri on 22 June 2015 at the age of 102.

Juta Zdešar Krulc (1913, Radovljica) studied at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana after finishing the Women Gymnasium in Ljubljana. She graduated in 1937 in the class of prof. Ivan Vurnik with a thesis on Swimming Pool Complex in Radovljica. She passed the public engineer accreditation in Belgrade where she worked in the office of architect Mihajl Nesić until 1940. Between 1953 and 1957 she worked as an assistant of prof. Ciril Jeglič at the Faculty of Agronomy in Ljubljana, assisting at the course Garden Art and Landscape Architecture. During this time she collaborated at planning of Volčji potok botanic garden. In 1955 the Yugoslavian Hydrometeorological Institute in Belgrade published a Phenological Atlas of Yugoslavia with her drawings of plants, plant deseases and bird and animal pests. Her work includes more than 300 ladscape plans for public spaces and private gardens. She supplemented her professional practice with a constant study of Slovenian plants and botanical drawings. First presentation of her work was done in 1993 by Irena Keršič an coworkers at the Marjan Lovšin Gallery in Ljubljana. In 2011 Juta's drawings were exhibited at the 20th anniversary of Omorika garden centre in Muta. In 2012 she received a recognition award for her work in Žiri along with an exhibition of her work and plans for more than 30 gardens in Žiri. Photographies of her realized gardens and landscapes were in recent years published in magazines Ambient, Hiše, Vrtnar, Rože in vrt, Delo in dom, Delo in dom plus and several other publications.

On June 1st 2015 an exhibition of plans and photographs of her gardens was opened in Dessa Gallery. Her work will be on display until August 29th 2015.

Mrs. Juta also made plans for plant arrangements of two large flower troughs on Židovska steza, in front of Dessa Gallery.