An Overview of Mushroom Structures in Slovene Structuralism

This paper is an overview of mushroom and umbrella structures in Slovenia. It starts with a brief introduction to the development of mushroom and umbrella structures. The main part of the paper describes five selected buildings in Slovenia which are all based upon the idea of a single central column supporting the roof. All of them were built between 1960 and 1971, a decade when Structuralism dominated Slovene architecture. The selection has been made according to their importance for Slovene architecture and therefore the analysis is made from the architectural point of view. At the end, various reasons for their sudden disappearance from Slovene architecture after 1970 are discussed.