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29/08/2018 In

Rossi Loris

Title of the work

Nel blu dipinto di blu

 

Short description of the work

Explaining a sketch is not unlike explaining a song.
In a song the right arrangement of words can confer different meanings and stimulate creativity or arouse emotions. In the same way, in a sketch the position of lines and colours can define a new creative path.

 

“Penso che un sogno cosi’ non ritorni mai piu’,
mi dipingevo le mani e la faccia di blu.
Poi d’improvviso venivo dal vento rapito,
e incominciavo a volare nel cielo infinito.

 

Volare, oh oh,
cantare, oh oh oh oh.
Nel blu dipinto di blu,
felice di stare lassu’.

 

E volavo volavo felice
piu’ in alto del sole ed ancora piu’ su
mentre il mondo pian piano spariva
lontano laggiu’.
Una musica dolce suonava soltanto per me.

 

Volare, oh oh
cantare, oh oh oh oh.
Nel blu dipinto di blu
felice di stare lassu’. […]”
from Domenico Modugno song, “Nel blu dipinto di blu”

 

Key words

Blu – Line – Fragment

 

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21/06/2018 In

De Luca Alessandro

Title of the work

Brutal Monochrome

 

Short description of the work

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Key words

Brutal – Monochrome – Skopje

 

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21/06/2018 In

La Giusa Lucia

Title of the work

Almost Blue

 

Short description of the work

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Key words

Opera Ballet Theatre – Skopje 2014 – Overshadow

 

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20/06/2018 In

Zanin Marco

Title of the work

Chromo Skopje

 

Short description of the work

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Key words

Chromo – Skopje – Macedonia

 

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20/06/2018 In

Piplas H. Brillembourg A. Klumpner H.

Title of the work

Reactivate Sarajevo City Action Lab:
Defragmenting the City & Reprogramming Cultural Infrastructure

 

Short description of the work

Project by:
Urban-Think Tank 
Chair of Architecture and Urban Design
Profs. Brillembourg&Klumpner
ETH Zurich

 

Project Director:
Haris Piplas
In collaboration and partnership with:
City of Sarajevo, Swiss State Secretariat of Economic Affairs (SECO), Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Matica of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) City of Zurich, Baier Bischofberger Architekten, University of Sarajevo

 

Key words

Sarajevo – Cultural- Infrastructure

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20/06/2018 In

Petrov Aleksander

Title of the work

Balkan Brutalism

 

Short description of the work

Medical high school Panche Karadjozov – skopje.
Student campus Goce Delchev – skopje.

 

Key words

Brutalism – Skopje – Balkan

 

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20/06/2018 In

Neri Gianfranco

Title of the work

Brutalist clouds

 

Short description of the work

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Key words

Brutalist – Clouds- Skopje

 

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20/06/2018 In

Marinolli Mattia

Title of the work

Skopje 2014 – Unknown magnitudo

 

Short description of the work

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Key words

Unknown – Heartquake – Brutalist

 

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20/06/2018 In

Jovanovski Filip

Title of the work

If Building could Talk

Short description of the work

The research-based performative art project IF BUILDINGS COULD TALK in Skopje is a collaborative action actively including the local community in the very process of its creation as one of the rare examples of collaborative practices in Macedonia.  It is a multidimensional and multidisciplinary project which was conducted and conceived by the artist Filip Jovanovski, curated by Ivana Vaseva, in collaboration with the architect and researcher Dejan Ivanovski and the creative team: actresses: Kristina Lelovac, Sanja Arsovska, Jasmina Vasileva, Dolores Popovic, Ilija Tiricovski, video production, Dejan Petrovic, sound design and Oliver Musovic, production. In the center of this project is the Railway Workers’ Residential Complex in Skopje, built as a rare example of social and communal housing in the frames of the post-war modern architecture.
This project is part of The International Theatre Festival “Youth Open Theatre” in Skopje in the additional program and it`s also partner of the project „Cultural spaces for active citizens” in partnership with LOCOMOTIVA – Center for new initiatives in art and culture. 

Author: Filip Jovanovski 
Curator: Ivana Vaseva 
Researcher and co-author of the script: Dejan Ivanovski 
Actresses: Kristina Lelovac, Sanja Arsovska, Jasmina Vasileva, Dolores Popovic 
Video production: Ilija Tiricovski
Participants: tenants in the building – Slobodan Kocevic, Ivan Dzijanovski, Tome Karevski

Producion: Oliver Musovik
Camera: Aleksandar Kotevski
Drone: Stojance Cavirovski
Editor and Sound Designer: Sashko Potter Micevski

Curator of the discussion and the performance piece: Ivana Vaseva
Organization: FRU – Faculty of things that can’t be learned, Bitola/ Skopje

Key words

Building – Skopje – Talk

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20/06/2018 In

Hristov Darko

Title of the work

Skopje

 

Short description of the work

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Key words

Skopje – Brutalism

 

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20/06/2018 In

Amaro Ottavio

Title of the work

Passato Presente

 

Short description of the work

 

Key words

Rovina – Internità – Temporalità

 

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20/06/2018 In

Messina Chiara Alba

Title of the work

Calea Șagului, Timișoara
Bloc Circumvalaţiunii, Timişoara

 

Short description of the work

1.2. Calea Sagului building complex (1979), and Heroes monument, Timisoara (Romania)
3. Circumvalatiunii building complex (1979) in Timisoara (Romania)

 

Key words

Bloc – Structure – Landscape

 

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20/06/2018 In

Grundy Helen

Title of the work

Naturist Brutalist (2018)

 

Short description of the work

I have created a digital collage where a Brutalist tower becomes at one with a natural landscape.

 

Key words

Collage – Brutalist – Natural

 

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20/06/2018 In

von Motz Mateusz

Title of the work

Bling Brutalism Series

 

Short description of the work

When Thomas Hirschhorn writes that the crystals stand for ‘the universal, the ultimate and the absolute’ he is arguing that the crystals stand for beauty itself. Here, in the work of author we are confronted by an idea of crystals that can best be described as a bling brutalism. Lumps of concrete are covered with shiny reflective film. The raw surface of the concrete – that reveals itself on the edges and sides of the stones – is animated by the shiny colored film that clings to the surface. The stones shimmer in response to the passing movement of the audience, they dance to any changes in light and with this dance encourage the objects around them to become animated.

Key words

Concrete – Photography – Brutalims – Light

 

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20/06/2018 In

Carli Giovanni

Title of the work

superstarSkopje

 

Short description of the work

Casta Diva, che inargenti
Queste sacre antiche piante
A noi volgi il bel sembiante
Senza nube e senza vel
(da “Norma”, Vincenzo Bellini, Felice Romani)

 

superstarSkopje mette in scena il melodramma urbano, il cambio d’abito della fu Casta Diva: l’architettura è un travestimento per ammaliare, per confondere, per sublimare la paura dei ricordi.

 

Key words

Maschera – Alterazione – Oblio

 

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20/06/2018 In

Korobar Vlatko

Title of the work

In the Beggining There Was… Order: Skopje cityscape with prefab houses in the late 1960’s

 

Short description of the work

A photography of the early years of Skopje reconstruction, when plans from the drawings boards were immediately transformed into spatial reality, showcasing the order that was to be and mirroring the prevailing planning ideas of the time.

 

Key words

Urban planning – Settlements with prefab housing – Post-earthquake development

 

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19/06/2018 In

Bakalchev V. Saša T. Minas B.

Title of the work

Images

 

Short description of the work

The new architecture of the 1960s and 1970s is not only represented by the physical artefacts which redefined the basic postulates of the previous functionalistic approach, but it also created a new visual basis for representing architecture. The images of that period of the work of Konstantinovski show and also highlight architecture as a constitutive, and at the same time as an autonomous architectural artefacts.

 

Key words

Konstantinovski – Images – 1960_1970

 

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19/06/2018 In

Rafailovska A. Samardjiev D.

Title of the work

Brutally Fractured Patterns

 

Short description of the work

The disastrous natural and cultural origin of the brutally fractured patterns on the urban map of Skopje, seems to signify a scarified palimpsest of conflicting architectural layers. Nonetheless, to locate a certain historical stratum in the urban development of the city of Skopje as the original urban physiognomy is a highly questionable act. This exit from the architectural realm and the transgression towards traditional embroidery patterns allows us to critically maneuver at a safe distance from conflicting architectural viewpoints and pull the loose threads of the
urban map of Skopje from outside. That way we might employ embroidery as an ornamental way of stitching together historically and politically torn and fractured architectural patterns in new creative contexts. One might ask what is the relation of traditional embroidery and brutalist architecture, is not the escapade into the domain of textiles too safe of a distance to be of any relevance to contemporary theory of architecture ?

 

Key words

Brutalli – Patterns – Skopje

 

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19/06/2018 In

Hristova Popovska Aneta

Title of the work

Trainspotting

 

Short description of the work

The anthropological standpoint that sees the particular reading of the ‘modern’ embedded in its key conceptual resource, the idea of the dynamic ‘cognitive map’, is crucial for understanding of the processes that influence the paradigm shift from the traditional to the modern reading of the city and by which the particular phases of the modern discourse can be identified. In the theory of perception the ‘movement’ defined by the Athens chapter as a synonym of the ‘functional city’ gains the role of a visual instrument, by which it is possible to create legible visual matrixes and then transmit them into a complex mental picture of the surrounding. The particular cinematic sequences of that picture generated by the transportation systems, create visual narratives whose strength lies in the permanent production of new interpretations of meanings. Two iconic buildings in Skopje from different generations of the Modern are benchmarking the local discourse paradigm shifts from ‘early modern’ through ‘doctrinaire modern’ to ‘late modern’: The Skopje Railway Station (Velimir Gavrilović, 1937) and the Transportation Centre (Kenzo Tange, 1980). Hereby, we present them as narrative tributes to the image of modern Skopje.

 

Key words

Cognitive map – Perceptual form – Visual narrative

 

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19/06/2018 In

Fatigato Lecoeur Acampora

Title of the work

Lost In Translation

 

Short description of the work

Skopje an Europan Capitale through non sense ʺantiquisationʺ or unique European brutalism belonging to a web of extraordinary utopian project? By choosing a neoclassical decorum that is only a falsification of architecture and politics, Skopje did not make the choice of a ʺRenaissanceʺ, as Tange suggested in 1965, but of a great spring backwards, as others cities have done before. Rather than joining communities by a system architecture, which could be strengthened, but which made its identity, the capital chose to freeze its architectural future with the falsification of its image. And to ally itself with the merciless impoverishment of its values without bet on its European uniqueness. Who wins: false democracy of popular architecture or the populism of a false architecture?
1. The life of forms in architecture
2. Erasing potemkin’s dream
3. Skopje neo-animal brutalist capital
4. Greetings from skopje

 

Key words

Democracy – Falsification – Neo-brutalism form

 

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19/06/2018 In

Rafailovska Ana

Title of the work

Brutally Fractured Patterns

 

Short description of the work

Еmbroidery as an ornamental way of stitching together historically and politically torn and fractured architectural patterns in new creative contexts.

 

Key words

Еmbroidery – Fracture – Patterns

 

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Drawing
19/06/2018 In

Russo Antonello

Title of the work

Il Campo di Skopje

 

Short description of the work

Lettura inedita della planimetria urbana di Skopje ottenuta dalla elaborazione digitale dell’incisione di Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Le antichità romane, Tav.II, del 1784.

 

Key words

Frammento – Città – Composizione

 

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19/06/2018 In

Cattaneo Elisa Cristiana

Title of the work

42° 0′ 0″ N, 21° 26′ 0″ E

 

Short description of the work

Ricomposizione in distorsione degli ologrammi urbani.

 

Key words

Geografia – Ologrammi – Landscape

 

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19/06/2018 In

Degli Esposti Lorenzo

Title of the work

Skopje2099

 

Short description of the work

Il disegno raffigura l’utopia di Tange realizzata nell’anno 2099.

 

Key words

Utopia – Tange – 2099

 

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19/06/2018 In

Baglivo Carmelo

Title of the work

Skopje – Roma

 

Short description of the work

Skopje – Roma 5 punti
1. Tutto si trasforma attraverso logiche di accumulazione – Accumulazione come strategia di crescita.
2. No all’ideologia come imposizione di un pensiero unico – Ideologia come apertura.
3. Fine della storia come sequenza temporale – Inizio della storia come accumulazione atemporale.
4. Progetto architettonico sempre figlio dell’Utopia – Utopia realizzata su cui è lecito riscrivere.
5. Accumulare sulle utopie degli altri – Processi d’innesti di riscrittura.

 

Key words

Accumulazione – Immaginario – Utopia

 

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19/06/2018 In

Jakimska Ana

Title of the work

The Future is Brutal

 

Short description of the work

In the future, many things will be changed. The sky above Skopje will have two suns and spaceships will fly over our squares. People will look different, wearing new outfits that will allow for easier movement and survival in the new world. However, there will be much fewer of them left, as a consequence of the poor air quality and the continuous deterioration of the conditions for sustaining life. In the harsh circumstances of the future, what will survive is the city’s brutal architecture. Brutality will be a reminder of the damage done by men as a consequence of the lack of a greater vision and solidarity.

 

Key words

Brutalism – Future – Pollution

 

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19/06/2018 In

Ginex G. Trimboli F.

Title of the work

1010_leaft

 

Short description of the work

L’albero è foglia e la foglia è albero_ la casa è città e la città è casa. Un albero è un albero ma è anche un enorme foglia. Un foglia è un foglia, ma è anche un piccolo albero. Una città non è una città se non è anche una grande casa. Una casa è una casa solo se è anche una piccola città.

 

Key words

Foglia – Casa – Città

 

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19/06/2018 In

Anselmi Cecilia

Title of the work

Skopije Thousand Arms ReGenerating Dance

 

Short description of the work

Digital photomontage based on photo by Thomas Fuesser, Xu Zhen “European Thousand Arms Classical Sculpture” (2015) and photo by Matteo Milano, Student House ‘Goce Delchev’, Georgi Kostantinovski, Skopje.

 

Key words

Red  – Line  – Photomontage

 

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19/06/2018 In

Capozzi Renato

Title of the work

Brutalismo tettonico

 

Short description of the work

Il disegno vuole sondare, attraverso la rielaborazione di una foto di Lucia La Giusa del MoCA – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Klyszewski, Mokrzynski e Wierzbicki del 1970, la possibilità di riconoscere anche nell’apparato figurale brutalista, di norma affidato alla parete, un assetto tettonico. Un assetto che connette in maniera evidente e riconoscibile alcuni elementi della costruzione (colonne, travi, vetrate) e non solo masse continue e opache per consentire, come in nel caso del MoCA per la sua posizione elevata, una apertura ala paesaggio urbano e naturale.

 

Key words

Tettonica – Elementi – Apertura

 

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19/06/2018 In

Fusco Alessandro Fabio

Title of the work

Dis-continuity

 

Short description of the work

Modern’s fragments between continuity and discontinuity.

 

Key words

Continuity – Discontinuity – Fragments

 

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19/06/2018 In

Marini Sara

Title of the work

A Tame Modernism

 

Short description of the work

The text proposes a reflection on the dimension of tame modernism. The realization of Kenzo Tange’s project for Skopje is read as evidence of the reconciliation between the heroic dimension and the domestic condition of the project. These two opposite natures, which the fragment of modernity holds together, continue to face each other inside but at the same time propose a possible useful cohabitation to the paths of contemporary architecture.

 

Key words

Kenzo Tange – Domestico – Modernità

 

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19/06/2018 In

Positano A. Konstantinova J.

Title of the work

Skopje. A Transitional Model
Text by Jana Konstantinova and Anna Positano – Photographs by Anna Positano

 

Short description of the work

Skopje is a case study to analyse contemporary architecture and identity in the Balkans, in the light of the current Macedonian political affairs and urban transformations. Several cultures and long-lasting migrations shaped Skopje’s urban fabric. Yet the city is mostly the result of political choices of the last fifty years. In 1963 the global political response to Skopje’s earthquake profoundly affected the city. As the Cold War reached its climax, international efforts to rebuild the city had the objective to pursue a global political stability. With the support of the United Nations, the Yugoslavian government adopted Kenzo Tange’s reconstruction plan of brutalist buildings, which made Skopje a modern, utopian metropolis. When Macedonia gained independence in 1991, nationalist politics changed the identity of Skopje’s architecture. The Socialist, international post-quake architecture could not represent Macedonian identity any more. Along with slow political transition, in 2010 the government announced a plan of urban renovation, Skopje 2014. The plan is turning Skopje’s brutalist heritage into neo-neoclassical buildings. The new confused and scattered built environment takes apart the civil society from architecture. This in combination with a young, uncertain political situation affects people’s personal and socio-cultural values. The plan attracted strong criticism since its announcement. Protesters have taken to the streets of Skopje and recently have turned into a Colourful Revolution against the general cultural austerity. Similar to other former Socialist countries, Skopje appears unable to re-examine and evaluate its architectural past. A city that once was the model of global architectural solidarity, now offers a case study of transitional post-Socialist dystopia.

 

Key words

Brutalism – Transformation – Politics

 

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19/06/2018 In

Batakoja Meri

Title of the work

Skopje’s Mega Block: modern architecture as an art of grafting

 

Short description of the work

The formative idea of “grafting” or “graftage” is originally a horticultural technique of inserting tissues from one plant to another in order for them to join together and continue to grow as a single plant. The technique of “graftage” in architectural context would mean that a new architecture is being interpolated over an old one, but by a set of treatments used, the different architectural interventions function as a single entity. It is presented in this text in the context of modern architecture of one singular urban block of Skopje.

 

Key words

Grafting – Modern architecture – Skopje

 

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19/06/2018 In

Naumovski Maksim

Title of the work

Dispositif

 

Short description of the work

Michel Foucault
“What I’m trying to pick out with this term is, firstly, a thoroughly heterogeneous ensemble consisting of discourses, institutions, architectural forms, regulatory decisions, laws, administrative measures, scientific statements, philosophical, moral and philanthropic propositions–in short, the said as much as the unsaid. Such are the elements of the apparatus. The apparatus itself is the system of relations that can be established between these elements.” “The Confession of the Flesh” (1977) interview. In Power/Knowledge Selected Interviews and Other Writings (ed Colin Gordon), 1980: pp. 194–228.

 

Key words

Infrastructure – Territory – Apparatus

 

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19/06/2018 In

Prati Carlo

Title of the work

Forma Brutalista

 

Short description of the work

Forma Brutalista è ispirato al brutalismo slavo con particolare riguardo al progetto del Museo della Macedonia realizzato nel 1972 da Kiril Muratovskj e Mimoza Nestorova-Tomić.

 

Key words

Brutalismo – Progetto – Utopia

 

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19/06/2018 In

Naumceski Aleksandar

Title of the work

Imaginary City

 

Short description of the work

Part of the project “Imaginary City”, a series of generated urban scenes and details. The photographic image created by taking photographs at different locations serves as a tool in the creation of new architectural / graphic solutions. The process in its turn represents designing through photography.

 

Key words

Architecture – Imaginary – City

 

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19/06/2018 In

Kardula Zoran

Title of the work

Skopje Brutalism

 

Short description of the work

Illustrations in the minimalist style of some brutal buildings in Skopje.

 

Key words

Skopje – Ilustration – Brualism

 

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19/06/2018 In

Noev Igor

Title of the work

Walking on broken glass
Typological shifts of Skopje and the continuing discontinuity of its urban landscape

 

Short description of the work

The essay introduces a particular historical frame, interpreting the urban development of the city of Skopje as a self-referential paradox. Within its turbulent history, Skopje survived three significant typological shifts represented with the urban designs by the teams of Josif Mihajlovic, Ludjek Kubes and Kenzo Tange. Partially carrying out and later abandoning these projects, led Skopje to reawake each time portraying a new typological narrative.
In this context, the so called “project Skopje2014” is interpreted as the latest narrative which continues the discontinuity of the urban landscape. In addition, it poses a great ethical challenge for the urban thinkers in Skopje at present time.
Model 01 – “Traditional” Skopje 1890
Model 02 – De-facto to De jure 1929
Model 03 – From “Genius loci” to “Zeitgeist” 1948
Model 04 – From “Modern” to “Postmodern”

 

Key words

Skopje – Typological shifts – Historical urban plans

 

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19/06/2018 In

Misiti Marina

Title of the work

MUP Mappe Urbane Personali – Skopje

 

Short description of the work

Alcuni degli edifici in stile brutalista e modernista di Skopje sono qui scomposti e rivisitati attraverso pattern colorati per offrire una nuova mappa urbana (e personale), sospesa tra memoria e presente. La rigenerazione e rivalutazione in chiave contemporanea del patrimonio architettonico brutalista, avviene qui attraverso un uso politico e poetico del colore (così come utilizzato nella recente “rivoluzione colorata” del Paese, durante le proteste del 2016), con le sue infinite possibilità di reinvenzione e recupero creativo del paesaggio urbano.

 

Key words

Mappeurbane – Rivoluzione colorata – Skopje

 

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19/06/2018 In

Raso Patrizio

Title of the work

Digestione di un palazzo

 

Short description of the work

Per dieci minuti ho osservato l’icnografia dell’impianto idrometereologico di Krsto Todorovski, ho provato a disegnarlo a memoria. Ho riguardato per altri dieci minuti il disegno originario per disegnarlo ancora. Ho ripetuto l’esercizio più volte fino alla definizione di una forma autonoma. Ho affidato questa forma nuova alla fragilità di un palloncino che nel frattempo ha perso il fiato.

 

Key words

Disegno – Memoria – Appartenenza

 

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18/06/2018 In

Softic Adnan

Title of the work

 A plea for the balkanization of europe

 

Short description of the work

The storytellers of the new Balkan states are diligently handicrafting something using memories and desires. However the price cannot be measured in euros. The price is the transformation of the local inhabitants into foreigners. It is time we remembered the true history of the Balkans. In the 20th century, the history of the old multinational states was overwritten with a national history. Let us expose it. We will see: The “Balkanization of Europe” is not a doomsday scenario. It is, with its democratic characteristics, the only way.

 

Key words

Nation-building vs. Balkanisation – A-Better-History

 

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18/06/2018 In

Pop Trajkova Maja

Title of the work

Sidetracked recollections

 

Short description of the work

Fictional text that explores the problem of preserving the private, or nearly mundane experiences of structures of cultural significance. Where there is the tendency of bringing elements of the built environment to the level of monuments, how does the quality of the habitual get introduced to it.

 

Key words

idiosyncrasy – temporality – Preserved

 

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18/06/2018 In

Sattin Laura

Title of the work

“Skopje 2030” interview with Simon Hartmann

 

Short description of the work

Simon Hartmann was born in 1974 in Bern, Switzerland. From 1994 to 2000 he studied at ETH Lausanne, TU Berlin and ETH Zurich. He collaborated with Rolf Furrer Architekten from 2000 to 2003 and he is teaching assistant at ETH Studio Basel from 2002 to 2007. In 2003 he founded HHF architects with Tilo Herlach and Simon Frommenwiler. HHF architects, based in Basel, has completed and ongoing projects in Switzerland, China, the United States, Germany, Italy and Montenegro. Simon Hartmann is a professor from 2009 to 2017 at HEIA Friborg. In 2011 he is Visiting Professor at the University of Innsbruck and in 2014 at the KIT of Karlsruhe. Since 2018 he has been Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture.

 

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Intervista – Interview – интервју

 

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18/06/2018 In

Casari P. Di Carlo P.

Title of the work

Politiche di nazionalizzazione e architettura: la radicale trasformazione urbanistica della città di Skopje

 

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Al fine di comprendere le ragioni delle scelte che hanno portato alla distruzione del patrimonio architettonico brutalista, si propone qui un’analisi che mette in relazione l’architettura e il nazionalismo. Tale trasformazione urbana è dovuta al totale stravolgimento del centro di Skopje fortemente voluta dal governo VMRO-DPMNE. La ricerca mette a confronto più teorie derivanti dalla scienza politica, dalla sociologia e da quest’ultima applicata all’architettura. Il periodo cui si fa riferimento nello studio è quello compreso tra le ricostruzioni del 1963 e dei primi due decenni del XXI secolo.

 

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Nationalism – Architecture – Skopje

 

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18/06/2018 In

Dimitrovska Elena

Title of the work

Skopje in the contemporary Macedonian film

 

Short description of the work

The article focuses on the representation of Skopje and its architecture in contemporary Macedonian cinematography.

 

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City – Cinema – Skopje

 

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18/06/2018 In

Cazzaniga Laura

Title of the work

Vardar’s Banks

 

Short description of the work

15 cm of rope River Vardar, Skopje-Macedonia 2009
Action realized for the Workshop “Public Invasion. Derivè in Skopje”, curated by Marco Trulli, in collaboration with Bjcem and Arci Viterbo. “Vardar’s Banks” is an action realized in correspondence of the banks of the river Vardar, in the city of Skopje. The characteristic of this river is that divides in two parts the city: from a side there is the commercialized & gentrificated Skopje, in the hand of Realestate speculation; from the other the poor Skopje, of Roma camps, where marginalised gypsy community live, and where you can still see naked children play at the foot of the river (at least until 2009, year of the action). With this work I have wished to connect and getting the two cities talking. I met a friend in the midpoint of a bridge, each of us took an head of the rope and, keeping the rope tight, we separated by crossing the opposite banks of the river Vardar. The rope was then fixed to the ground.

 

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Skopje – Vardar – City

 

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18/06/2018 In

Petrushevski Ivan

Title of the work

Skopje

 

Short description of the work

A small illustrated collection of my favorite buildings in Skopje.

 

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Skopje – Architecture – Illustration

 

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18/06/2018 In

Talaat Hazem

Title of the work

[re]thinking: brutal

 

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[re]thinking: brutal is not just a recall of a nostalgic socialist architecture, but also a brutal [re]design of an important representative building of skopje 2014, dreaming of new brutal because brutal maybe is not brutal enough.

 

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[re]thinking – [re]drawing – [re]design

 

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18/06/2018 In

Lister Graham

Title of the work

Demolition Site, Blocked View (2017), ink and oil on board.

 

Short description of the work

So much of the modern and brutalist architecture of Europe faces the risk of demolition and ‘Demolition Site, Blocked View’ is a drawing / painted reflection of this situation. Often, the erasure of modernist and brutalist legacies are hidden from public view.

 

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Demolition – Drawing – Painting

 

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18/06/2018 In

Pascale Francesco

Title of the work

People from Skopje
MEPSO lifting

 

Short description of the work

Quasi il 10% dei fondi del programma Skopje 2014 è stato impiegato per la costruzione di statue monumentali. La città si è popolata di persone inanimate: santi, poeti, re e guerrieri a cavallo. Nel frattempo le persone vere, con tutte le difficoltà, continuano a esistere.
Il piano di rinnovamento urbano Skopje 2014 comprende molti interventi di ricostruzione delle facciate. Un esempio è il rivestimento eclettico che ha subito l’edificio MEPSO: come in un lifting si sovrascrive prendendo come riferimento un’idea di bellezza generica e fuori contesto.

 

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Monumento – Statue – Persone – MEPSO – Facciata – Lifting

 

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18/06/2018 In

Volfovich Polina

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Baltijos kelias vs. Coca-Cola

 

Short description of the work

A collaged accordion book measuring 6.5” x 39” exploring the function of the human chain under opposing economic systems, as those actions took place in The Baltic Way and Hands Across America.

 

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Baltic way – Collage – Book arts

 

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18/06/2018 In

Palamara Giacomo S

Title of the work

not so brutal

 

Short description of the work

Giocattoli brutalisti in disordine nella cameretta di un bambino balcanico.

 

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Giocattoli – Caos – Colori

 

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18/06/2018 In

Ventura Valerio

Title of the work

Brutalism, concrete, paper?

 

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Brutalism, concrete, paper?

 

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Brutalism – Concrete – Paper?

 

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18/06/2018 In

Schwager Matthew

Title of the work

Skopje Texture Pack

 

Short description of the work

I took a few grains of Skopje brutalism and expanded them into a complete texture pack. The result is a preservation of essence, a brutal mycelium, or perhaps an infinite building.

 

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Skopje – Texture  – New-media

 

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18/06/2018 In

Monojloska Julija

Title of the work

Objects

 

Short description of the work

These photographs represent buildings in Skopje. Although they look like sculptures, in their being they are less brutal than the institutions they represent, Student dormitory and Macedonian post office in Skopje.

 

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Brutalism – Architecture – Institution

 

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18/06/2018 In

Canziani Stefano

Title of the work

L’impero colpisce ancora
MoCA Expansion
Stroboskopje
LHSB – Lunar Hydrometeorological Service Building
SK-SK

 

Short description of the work

L’operazione SK2014 si sta attrezzando per far scomparire testimonianze importanti del modernismo di Skopje. Ma c’è ancora qualche speranza di salvezza nella lotta tra il “bene” e il “lato oscuro”.
Si vuole creare idealmente un dialogo tra il progetto contemporaneo e gli edifici del moderno a Skopje. Una convivenza possibile che porti un valore aggiunto al patrimonio esistente e non il contrario.
L’intento del disegno è fornire uno spunto per cercare di far notare come una seconda vita sia possibile per determinati edifici che caratterizzano Skopje, senza doverne cancellare il carattere originale, basta vederli da un altro punto di vista.
La luna è davvero l’unica speranza per salvaguardare il brutalismo macedone?
Invertire il punto di vista può permetterci di vedere tutto in un’ottica differente.

 

Key words

Resistenza – Utopia – Brutalismo – Megastruttura – Borko Lazeski – Luna – Upsidedown – Second life

 

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18/06/2018 In

Simone Sante

Title of the work

Le tre città
Ponti e Porte
Il sogno yugoslavo

 

Short description of the work

Il disegno è parte della tesi di dottorato in Composizione Architettonica discussa a Roma nel 2012. La ricerca indaga il legame tra il motto ‘Fratellanza e Unità’ e il progetto della città moderna.

 

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Yugoslavia – Città – Modernità

 

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