21/06/2018
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Brutal Monochrome
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Brutal – Monochrome – Skopje
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21/06/2018
In
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Almost Blue
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Opera Ballet Theatre – Skopje 2014 – Overshadow
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21/06/2018
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Brutalist dissolving
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Brutalist – Balkan – Skopje
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20/06/2018
In
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Chromo Skopje
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Chromo – Skopje – Macedonia
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20/06/2018
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20/06/2018
In
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Balkan Brutalism
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Medical high school Panche Karadjozov – skopje.
Student campus Goce Delchev – skopje.
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Brutalism – Skopje – Balkan
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20/06/2018
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Skopje 2014 – Unknown magnitudo
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Unknown – Heartquake – Brutalist
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20/06/2018
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Skopje
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Skopje – Brutalism
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20/06/2018
In
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Lineamenti
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Libera interpretazione.
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Geometria – Antico – Cultura
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20/06/2018
In
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Calea Șagului, Timișoara
Bloc Circumvalaţiunii, Timişoara
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1.2. Calea Sagului building complex (1979), and Heroes monument, Timisoara (Romania)
3. Circumvalatiunii building complex (1979) in Timisoara (Romania)
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Bloc – Structure – Landscape
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20/06/2018
In
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Bling Brutalism Series
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Concrete – Photography – Brutalims – Light
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20/06/2018
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In the Beggining There Was… Order: Skopje cityscape with prefab houses in the late 1960’s
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Urban planning – Settlements with prefab housing – Post-earthquake development
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19/06/2018
In
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Atlas of Imagination
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Atlas – Montage – Images
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19/06/2018
In
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The Future is Brutal
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Brutalism – Future – Pollution
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19/06/2018
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Skopje. A Transitional Model
Text by Jana Konstantinova and Anna Positano – Photographs by Anna Positano
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.
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Brutalism – Transformation – Politics
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Text
19/06/2018
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Beirut, Aeroporto
Veduta della periferia sud di Beirut, parte del progetto di mappatura “Dahiye”, 2013/ongoing.
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Beirut – Aeroporto – Dahiye
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19/06/2018
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Imaginary City
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.
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Architecture – Imaginary – City
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18/06/2018
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Del peso. La soluzione tra brutalismo e poesia
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Carlo Scarpa nel restauro della Fortezza Scaligera. Restauro? Il Maestro ci mostra che bisogna venire a patti con le parole e pesarle. E tenerle tutte insieme, forse, nell’impossibile soluzione tra brutalismo e poesia.
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Architettura – Brutalismo – Poesia
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18/06/2018
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Objects
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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
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Il ponte che collega i due mondi
Architettura e Religione
L’imponenza di un muro in cemento
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Il ponte di pietra svetta in primo piano sugli edifici di “Scopje 2014” e collega Piazza Macedonia, figlia del nuovo piano di rinnovamento urbano, con il vecchio bazar ottomano
La cattedrale di San Clemente di Ohrid è un edificio modernista di Brezoski in cui è evidente l’influenza brutalista
Tratto della Muraglia Urbana di Kenzo Tange, il progetto basato sull’archetipo del muro
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Collegamento – Storia – Brutalismo – Brezoski – Muro – Cemento
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15/06/2018
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Out of context corners
Sculptural sunset
Pastel windows
Where memories dance
Textures
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The hardest thing to do is take out architecture out of it’s context especially when it is based around it. Here, through a simple shot of the corner, we see the architectural detail of the Museum of Macedonia.
The modernist white setting of the Museum of Contemporary Art is changed thanks to the entering light of the sunset. Suddenly it gives the building a new colorful character, one that mimics an art piece.
The soft pastel colors in contrast to the harsh concrete, an intertwining in the facade of the student dormitory in Skopje.
Trapped childhood memories in a metal box, a home to laughter and joy, once very close, now forgotten and deteriorating.
The clear blue sky mixes in between the cold grey tones of the facade of the building of the Macedonian Radio, creating a connection between nature and architecture. Isolated from the context of the whole form, this corner gives us a peak into the details of Macedonian modernism.
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corner – contrast – colors – concrete – windows
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15/06/2018
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ARO-Patria Building
Magistraților building
Presei Libere Square
Short description of the work
The Asigurarea Romaneasca (ARO) insurance building (1929–1931), by Horia Creangă (20 July 1892 – 1 August 1943), considered the first important modernist structure in Romania.
Magistraților building (1935-1937, Bd. Magheru, nr. 22-24), by Duiliu Marcu (1885-1966), Bucharest.
Presei Libere Square with casa Presei Libere (1952-1957) and Aripi Monument, in northern Bucharest.
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Modernism – Volume – East
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15/06/2018
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Допир (Touch)
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Приказ на директен контакт на човек со архитектура и битноста на човечкото мерило во неа.
Representation of a direct human contact with architecture and the importance of human factor.
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Touch – Facade – Scale
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15/06/2018
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Balkan Notes
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Some photographic notes from my journeys to Serbia and Bosnia, always looking for interesting modern and brutalist architecture at hidden spots off the main tourist roads.
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Architecture – Bosnia – Serbia
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15/06/2018
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BLOKOVI
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The in 2009 pursued photo project BLOKOVI explores both social and spatial patterns of the district Novi Beograd (Belgrade), the most ambitious urbanisation project carried out in ex-Yugoslavia.
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Novi – Beograd – Urbanization – Ex-yugoslavia
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Photo
15/06/2018
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operazioni (il)legittime
Cattedrale
Tramonto
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In un gioco immaginario di infinite sovrapposizioni, l’anima brutalista della città potrebbe un giorno risvegliarsi e uscire dalle sue maschere storiciste. Qual è la vera identità di Skopje?
Central Post Office, Janko Konstantinov, 1974,1982,1989.
Il cemento armato non è solo grigio.
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Involucri – Maschere – Sk2014 – Poste – Konstantinov – Brutalismo
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15/06/2018
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Brutalizamot vo funkcija na UKIM
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Fotografiite se napraveni vo 2006ta godina vo Univerzitetskiot kompleks sv. Kiril i Metodij i vnatresnosta na Praven Fakultet Justinijan I, so analogen aparat Canon EOS 3, a prikacenite primeroci se skenirana kopija od samite negativi.
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Brutalizam – Univerzitetski kompleks sv. Kiril i Metodij – Praven Fakultet
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15/06/2018
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Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Skopje 2018
Interno Università Ss. Cirillo e Metodio 2018
La finestra sul bosco di betulle 2018
Università di Skopje a fine giornata
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Ho scelto di fotografare l’esterno del Museo di Arte Contemporanea al tramonto per rendere l’immagine più accattivante. In evidenza la grande finestra sporgente ed il soffitto in cemento armato dell’androne
Mi ha immediatamente colpito uno degli interni dell’università. Il marmo bianco sul pavimento e le grandi colonne in cemento rendono l’immagine di grande effetto scenico
La grande finestra sembra sporgere da un bosco di betulle. La fotografia è stata scattata ad un particolare dell’Università Ss.Cirillo e Metodio di Skopje.
Ho fotografato questo angolo dell’Università dei Ss. Cirillo e Metodio con il sole ormai tramontato. La luce è uniforme, non ci sono parti illuminate più di altre. Ciò che risalta sono le forme originali della struttura
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15/06/2018
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Скопје што го знам јас
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Ова е Скопјето кое јас го знам и сакам. Растејќи помеѓу блоковите на Градски ѕид, ја доживеав убавината на периодот во кој градот беше најавтентичен и најискрен. Нашиот град Скопје сѐ уште крие зачувани ќошиња од тој период, но и гордо покажува голем број на фасади и нејзини детали кои за наша среќа се сѐ уште недопрени.
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Мое – Скопје
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Photo
15/06/2018
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Investigating Skopje 2014
Short description of the work
Skopje 2014 is a construction project financed by the Macedonian Government with the superficial aim of strengthening the national identity and the recollection of the antique past. Indeed the construction project serves as a tool for money-laundering and therefore also is the base for the in Macedonia widely spread clientelism. During a monthly stay in Skopje, the authors obtained a picture of the situation. They captured their impressions by the use of imagery and text.
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Brutalism – Neoclassicism – Klientalism
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15/06/2018
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Brutalism of Skopje
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4 photographs from Skopje Brutalism, from Post Office, Gradski Zid and Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopjе.
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Brutalism – Skopje – Macedonia
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Photo
13/06/2018
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Goce Delčev student dormitory
Medical High School Panche Karagjozov
Nikola Karev High School
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University
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4 fotografie scattate a febbraio 2018 in occasione della lecture sul modernismo nell’est Europa che ho tenuto al Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Skopje.
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Modernism – Concrete – Brutalism
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13/06/2018
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196 days in the east
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This project is a personal approach on the experience of living in an Eastern European country. These selected photos were shot on film, on April 2015 in Macedonia.
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People – Street – Macedonia
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Photo
13/06/2018
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Sarajevo Reports
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Reel 05. Photos of Housing units build during Tito´s socialist regime in the 70´with evident traces of the Bosnian War and of e Olympic facilities of the Winter Games 1984. Part of the Workshop: The Agonistic Body.
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Sarajevo – Olympics – Bosnia
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13/06/2018
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Skopje 2015
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Urban landscape Skopje, photographed in 2015.
Key words
Skopje – Architecture – Urbanism
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13/06/2018
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The Bedrock
The Bedrock II
Short description of the work
The development of an intervention realized on the same spot: before, during and after the excavation of the soil for the future house.
The excavated soil, that was supposed to be filled with the concrete in order to become a proper house foundation but continued to wait that moment, represented my attempt to built a house in the same age in which my father was when he started to build his. Under the influence of weather conditions, the significant amount of already excavated soil has returned back in its original state, leaving the visible traces of previous intervention that took place at the same spot several months earlier. Re-engagement of close friends and family members, in order to re-excavate the soil witnesses of investing, sometimes, Sisyphus effort and patience to overcome current possibilities and chances.
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Three-generation – Heritage – Value
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