In January 1959, the Tatjana Odrova Kindergarten (today's Sonček) was opened in Planina in Kranj. This was one of the first purpose-built kindergartens that was visited as a novelty by people from all over Europe. The main feature of the kindergarten for 60 children was the blurred connection between the interior and the large garden with existing trees. Ana Brovč, former headmistress, talks about the kindergarten.

The podcast is part of a series of recordings created for the exhibition Marjan Šorli and Domesticated Architecture, on view at the Museum of Architecture and Design from 30 September 2025 to 8 February 2026.

The houses on Velikovška in Ljubljana, built in the late 1950s for workers of the Slovenian Railways, were a small but innovative addition to the anonymous fabric of Bežigrad neighborhood residential structures. The atrium houses, joined at intervals, formed a street row, allowing a gradual transition from the public space of the street through a semi-public atrium, which is raised from the street, to the privacy of the home. Anka Jerman, who built the house together with her husband, spoke about the terraced house in 2024.

The podcast is part of a series of recordings created for the exhibition Marjan Šorli and Domesticated Architecture, on view at the Museum of Architecture and Design from 30 September 2025 to 8 February 2026.

The skyscraper brought a new urban element to Kranj with its diverse program, a mix of residential, public and commercial functions, as well as a new urban typology. The building was expected to have offices from the 1st to 6th floors, flats in between, and a panoramic restaurant on the top, on the 17th floor. Architect Primož Jeza, a former resident and grandson of Šorli's sister Slavica, talks about his first impressions of the skyscraper.

The podcast is part of a series of recordings created for the exhibition Marjan Šorli and Domesticated Architecture, on view at the Museum of Architecture and Design from 30 September 2025 to 8 February 2026 

The skyscraper, a dominant highrise that changed the view of old Kranj in the early 1960s and introduced a new urban focus to the city, was built on a former football field. The skyscraper brought several innovations, including a shiny aluminium facade cladding. And, living in the skyscraper also had a certain value in Kranj. Mika Jovičević, one of the first residents and former marketing manager at Iskra Kranj, talks about life in the Skyscraper.

The podcast is part of a series of recordings created for the exhibition Marjan Šorli and Domesticated Architecture, on view at the Museum of Architecture and Design from 30 September 2025 to 8 February 2026.

Šorli sourced and paralleled the ideal of a modern refuge as a space that should be as large as the “coop of a waggon”, both from the evolution of the Slovenian house and from the achievements of spatial psychology. The little house on Možjanca, which the architect built as his refuge in 1952, stands at the end of the village, at the junction of the forest and the pastures. Šorli and his experimental house on Možjanca are described by his neighbor Drago Štefe, former manager of Elektro Gorenjska.

The podcast is part of a series of recordings created for the exhibition Marjan Šorli and Domesticated Architecture, on view at the Museum of Architecture and Design from 30 September 2025 to 8 February 2026.

Šorli built the experimental house on Možjanca as his refuge in 1952 and continued to expand it until his death. The house, which is extremely sensitively placed in the terrain, takes into account the topography and opens up to the views. It was designed as a simple volume with thick plastered walls and a light, thin overhanging single-pitched roof, laid on beams made of wooden poles. Veronika Leskovšek, granddaughter of architect Marjan Šorli, talks about the experimental house.

The podcast is part of a series of recordings created for the exhibition Marjan Šorli and Domesticated Architecture, on view at the Museum of Architecture and Design from 30 September 2025 to 8 February 2026.

The bold and modern design of the flat-roofed house, built between 1952 and 1959 in Nova vas near Radovljica, took into account both the landscape elements and the functional needs of the family that settled there. As Marjan Šorli wrote in the technical report, “the house is without meaningless decorations. Its beauty lies in the rational organisation of plastic spaces that connect with each other, in the expressive use of materials and in the connection with nature.” Jurij Finžgar, an aviator and pilot, talks about the construction of the family house, his childhood and the spaces of his home.

The podcast is part of a series of recordings created for the exhibition Marjan Šorli and Domesticated Architecture, on view at the Museum of Architecture and Design from 30 September 2025 to 8 February 2026.

The settlement of single-family houses for agricultural workers in Cvišlerji near Kočevje lies on a hill between karst sinkholes. The houses are simple gabled houses, built in a classical style, but with added prefabricated elements, with modern equipment and large window areas. They combine contemporary architecture with elements, taken from folk architecture. Franja Virant, a psychologist, librarian and biographical therapist who grew up in the house, talks about life in one of the houses in Cvišlerji.

The podcast is part of a series of recordings created for the exhibition Marjan Šorli and Domesticated Architecture, on view at the Museum of Architecture and Design from 30 September 2025 to 8 February 2026.

The architect planned a holiday home in Funtana near Vrsar in Istria for the family of his daughter Vida. He and his son-in-law Peter found an old cowshed on the outskirts of the village, which Šorli renovated into a small, walled-in summer retreat in 1971. According to some, the house was Šorli's interpretation of a Roman house, while others say he explained it as a "built-up tent". Zdenka Ogris, a family friend of Šorli's daughter Vida and her husband Peter, tells us about the holidays in Funtana and her memories of the architect and his family.

The podcast is part of a series of recordings created for the exhibition Marjan Šorli and Domesticated Architecture, on view at the Museum of Architecture and Design from 30 September 2025 to 8 February 2026.

In the first years after the Second World War, the historic urban core of Kranj was increasingly opening up to new architecture. The former Mohor pastry shop, which had a cult role in Kranj even before the war, became the social centre of the city with a modern, completely custom-designed interior in the early 1950s. Marjan Šorli skilfully used traditional materials in contemporary pieces, upgraded with sophisticated expertise. Three generations of Kranj residents, former manager of Elektro Gorenjska Drago Štefe, architect Ciril Oblak, and head of the local history department at the Kranj library, Petra Puhar, share their memories of the iconic City Café in Kranj.

The podcast is part of a series of recordings created for the exhibition Marjan Šorli and Domesticated Architecture, on view at the Museum of Architecture and Design from 30 September 2025 to 8 February 2026.