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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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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

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

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

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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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

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.

 

Key words

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

 

Short description of the work

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.

 

Key words

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.

 

Key words

City – Cinema – Skopje

 

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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.

 

Key words

Skopje – Architecture – Illustration

 

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18/06/2018 In

Russo Marco

Title of the work

Greetings from Skopje!

 

Short description of the work

Futuristic mistakes. How would be Skopje if Kenzo Tange’s metabolic vision had been built? Pecche di avvenirismo. Come sarebbe stata Skopje se fosse stata realizzata la visione metabolista di Kenzo Tange?

 

Key words

Skopje architecture – Kenzo Tange plan – Brutalism.

 

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18/06/2018 In

Trentani Martina

Title of the work

Il ponte che collega i due mondi
Architettura e Religione
L’imponenza di un muro in cemento

 

Short description of the work

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

 

Key words

Collegamento –  Storia – Brutalismo – Brezoski – Muro – Cemento

 

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15/06/2018 In

Babic Maja

Title of the work

Re-Building Skopje: The Curations of Past and Present in the ‘Capital of Kitsch’

 

Short description of the work

Architectural investigation into Skopje provides us with the tools to understand both the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav architectural and political events. The contemporary architecture of Skopje exemplifies of the architectural production in the post-socialist Southeastern Europe and its deeply intertwined relationship with politics. The examination of the re-production of politics and ideology through architectural construction, allows for an insight into events taking place in Skopje today, in the deeply problematic processes of both canceling and negating of the communist past. I study the two reconstructions of Skopje, the post-1963 earthquake period and the contemporary architectural events in the city, and I argue that both projects exhibit the shifting relationships between architecture and politics, as well as its perpetual re-negotiations, and the paramount importance of their contexts in understanding the conjunction of the past and present in the city.

 

Key words

Brutalism – Heritage – Nationalism

 

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15/06/2018 In

Debidda Caterina

Title of the work

SKOPJE spaces

 

Short description of the work

Skopje. Una città di frammenti, simbolo della storia macedone che ha subito nel corso degli anni continue e successive metamorfosi. Dopo il terremoto degli anni ’60 il maestro Tange definisce un’idea utopica di una metropoli balcanica urbana caratterizzata da edifici brutalisti di forte spessore. Il mio collage cerca quindi di esprimere in maniera concisa l’idea urbana e architettonica dell’architetto attraverso la rappresentazione di alcuni edifici simbolo assieme allo skyline della città. Tange appare come il deus ex machina che definisce l’assetto del futuro, un’ideale di città moderna con un centro forte, infrastrutture e grandi edifici chiave.

 

Key words

Collage – Tange – Urban

 

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