Ljubljana turns out to be another town in the design tradition of Napier and Noto, in that it was destroyed by an earthquake in 1895 and rebuilt all in the same style. To a large extent, it was all redesigned by the same man, one Joze Plecnik, who is not particularly well featured by an afternoon walk in gathering fall gloom but who made his name in architecture for applying Art Nouveau to a city which previously was done up in the style of whatever you rebuilt cities with in 1511, when it was also destroyed by an earthquake. Plecnik probably wouldn't be so much admired in California as one of the works for which he is most respected is doing to the river here more or less what was done to the Los Angeles River, except with some willow trees and some cute bridges that they are very proud of. I think the way you make your name in art is just to be there when a disaster happens and rebuild the mess. Tintoretto had nothing special, the Palazzo Ducal just had a fire. Some day there will be a Kellogg Brown Root school of civil engineering based on the unity of concept with which they rebuilt Iraq and New Orleans.