Damjan Prelovšek received an honorary doctorate from the University of Applied Arts in Prague

Prague - Art historian and former Slovenian ambassador to the Czech Republic, Damjan Prelovšek, received an honorary doctorate from the Prague Academy of Art yesterday. The ceremonial event took place in the former Church of St. Anne.
    Prelovšek focuses primarily on the work of his famous compatriot Josip Plečnik, who was the architect of Prague Castle from 1920 to 1935. Plečnik maintained close contact with the Prelovšek family - Prelovšek was born in a house whose interiors were designed by Plečnik in Ljubljana for his grandfather. Even in the house, there are elements that the architect later used at the Castle - columns, a coffered ceiling, similarly styled furniture, a stone fountain, and a spiral staircase to the garden.
    Damjan Prelovšek became so fond of Plečnik's works, which he was surrounded by since childhood, that he began to study the oeuvre of his famous compatriot systematically. He also studied in Vienna, where he processed Plečnik's early projects and realizations. Later, he wrote a significant monograph on Plečnik and developed detailed guides and books on individual buildings.
    Since the early 1990s, he has been a member of the team that prepared an exhibition, a book, and a film about Plečnik's work at Prague Castle. Without his intensive collaboration, the major exhibition event of 1996 across the entire castle grounds entitled Architecture for a New Democracy could not have been created, wrote architectural historian and another author of the exhibition, Zdeněk Lukeš, about Prelovšek's work.