29/08/2018
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Nel blu dipinto di blu
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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
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Brutal Monochrome
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Brutal – Monochrome – Skopje
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Photo
21/06/2018
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Excerpt from SKOPJEd_destratification
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Destratification – Skopje – SK14
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20/06/2018
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Naturist Brutalist (2018)
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I have created a digital collage where a Brutalist tower becomes at one with a natural landscape.
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Collage – Brutalist – Natural
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19/06/2018
In
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Trainspotting
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Cognitive map – Perceptual form – Visual narrative
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Text
19/06/2018
In
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Lost In Translation
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Democracy – Falsification – Neo-brutalism form
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Drawing
19/06/2018
In
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Il Campo di Skopje
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Frammento – Città – Composizione
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Drawing
19/06/2018
In
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Skopje2099
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Utopia – Tange – 2099
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Drawing
19/06/2018
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Skopje – Roma
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Accumulazione – Immaginario – Utopia
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19/06/2018
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1010_leaft
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Foglia – Casa – Città
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Drawing
19/06/2018
In
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Dis-continuity
Modern’s fragments between continuity and discontinuity.
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Continuity – Discontinuity – Fragments
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Drawing
19/06/2018
In
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A Tame Modernism
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.
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Kenzo Tange – Domestico – Modernità
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Text
19/06/2018
In
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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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19/06/2018
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Skopje’s Mega Block: modern architecture as an art of grafting
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.
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Grafting – Modern architecture – Skopje
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19/06/2018
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Dispositif
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.
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Infrastructure – Territory – Apparatus
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Drawing
19/06/2018
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Forma Brutalista
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.
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Brutalismo – Progetto – Utopia
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Drawing
19/06/2018
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Walking on broken glass
Typological shifts of Skopje and the continuing discontinuity of its urban landscape
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”
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Skopje – Typological shifts – Historical urban plans
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Text
18/06/2018
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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.
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idiosyncrasy – temporality – Preserved
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18/06/2018
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“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
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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
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L’impero colpisce ancora
MoCA Expansion
Stroboskopje
LHSB – Lunar Hydrometeorological Service Building
SK-SK
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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.
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Resistenza – Utopia – Brutalismo – Megastruttura – Borko Lazeski – Luna – Upsidedown – Second life
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Drawing
18/06/2018
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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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18/06/2018
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Greetings from Skopje!
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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?
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Skopje architecture – Kenzo Tange plan – Brutalism.
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18/06/2018
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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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Photo
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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The loot of Alessandro Magno [on a photo of Alessandro De Luca]
Monument to the wreckage
Short description of the work
Black shadows like the forms of Jean Arp that describe the places where ‘the Magno’ at the center of Europe hides his world.
1963. Extraction of the fragment from the epicenter of the world. Image of a permanent and transitory place to absorb the weight of history.
02 Black shadows like the forms of Jean
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Epicenter – Black hole – FORGETFULNESS – 1963 – Libra – Transeunte
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Drawing
15/06/2018
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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.
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Brutalism – Heritage – Nationalism
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Text
15/06/2018
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SKOPJE spaces
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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.
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Collage – Tange – Urban
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Drawing
13/06/2018
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BRUTALIST (COLL)AGES_Skopje
Short description of the work
Il disegno mostra gli edifici brutalisti più rappresentativi di Skopje in un’unica costruzione. L’intento è valorizzare il forte ruolo iconico e scenografico che possiedono.
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Skopje – Brutalism – Collages
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Drawing
13/06/2018
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Hotel Jugoslavija
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The monument loses its nature, continuous metamorphosis, becomes an incubator of human lives. Hotel Jugoslavija, new of device of the common living.
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Collage
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