20/06/2018
In
Title of the work
Lineamenti
Short description of the work
Libera interpretazione.
Key words
Geometria – Antico – Cultura
Section
Photo
20/06/2018
In
Title of the work
Homage to a city
Short description of the work
One square many possibilities, transforming it onto the x,y,z axes attributes to the complexity of form that math these architectural monuments into existence, giving a homage through sound and form.
Key words
Programming – Painting – Contemporary
Section
Video
20/06/2018
In
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
Section
Photo
20/06/2018
In
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
Section
Drawing
20/06/2018
In
Title of the work
Bling Brutalism Series
Key words
Concrete – Photography – Brutalims – Light
Section
Photo
18/06/2018
In
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
Section
Text
18/06/2018
In
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
Section
Text
18/06/2018
In
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
Section
Text
18/06/2018
In
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
Section
Text
18/06/2018
In
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
Section
Text
18/06/2018
In
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.
Key words
Skopje – Vardar – City
Section
Video
18/06/2018
In
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
Section
Drawing
18/06/2018
In
Title of the work
[re]thinking: brutal
Short description of the work
[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.
Key words
[re]thinking – [re]drawing – [re]design
Section
Drawing
18/06/2018
In
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.
Key words
Demolition – Drawing – Painting
Category
Drawing
18/06/2018
In
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.
Key words
Monumento – Statue – Persone – MEPSO – Facciata – Lifting
Section
Drawing
18/06/2018
In
Title of the work
Del peso. La soluzione tra brutalismo e poesia
Short description of the work
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.
Key words
Architettura – Brutalismo – Poesia
Section
Photo
18/06/2018
In
Title of the work
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.
Key words
Baltic way – Collage – Book arts
Section
Drawing
18/06/2018
In
Title of the work
not so brutal
Short description of the work
Giocattoli brutalisti in disordine nella cameretta di un bambino balcanico.
Key words
Giocattoli – Caos – Colori
Section
Drawing
18/06/2018
In
Title of the work
Brutalism, concrete, paper?
Short description of the work
Brutalism, concrete, paper?
Key words
Brutalism – Concrete – Paper?
Section
Drawing
18/06/2018
In
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.
Key words
Skopje – Texture – New-media
Section
Drawing
18/06/2018
In
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.
Key words
Brutalism – Architecture – Institution
Category
Photo
18/06/2018
In
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
Section
Drawing
18/06/2018
In
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.
Key words
Yugoslavia – Città – Modernità
Section
Drawing
18/06/2018
In
Title of the work
RE-new
Short description of the work
Al comando cancella/copia/incolla…ricostruzione sulla costruzione
Key words
RE – Costruzione – Reconstruction
Section
Drawing
18/06/2018
In
Title of the work
Fragment S
Short description of the work
Slowly fired ceramic square (stoneware clay) up to 1020°. The final result is representing a section in concrete. Therefore, the viewer can touch, feel and connect to the material, and the object itself becomes a documented artefact. Related to the subject, the square with its silent but solid poetry, is directly taking part within the landscape in progress. The goal is to reach an emotional reaction and to transform the unfortunate detachment into a new consciousness. The piece has multiple dimensions, it is a drawing, collage, 3D document.
Key words
Ceramics – Concrete – Artefact
Section
Drawing
18/06/2018
In
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.
Section
Drawing
18/06/2018
In
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
Section
Photo
15/06/2018
In
Title of the work
Out of context corners
Sculptural sunset
Pastel windows
Where memories dance
Textures
Short description of the work
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.
Key words
corner – contrast – colors – concrete – windows
Section
Photo
15/06/2018
In
Title of the work
Beauty of the rhythm
Short description of the work
The black and white handmade drawing depicts a rhythmic composition of the unique facade of the Telecommunication Centre merged together with an outstanding floor plan of the Post Office in Skopje.
Key words
Facade – Floor plan – Rhythm
Section
Drawing
15/06/2018
In
Title of the work
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.
Key words
Modernism – Volume – East
Section
Photo
15/06/2018
In
Title of the work
Допир (Touch)
Short description of the work
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.
Key words
Touch – Facade – Scale
Section
Photo
15/06/2018
In
Title of the work
Balkan Notes
Short description of the work
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.
Key words
Architecture – Bosnia – Serbia
Section
Photo
15/06/2018
In
Title of the work
Window pattern
Short description of the work
Skopje’s Post office by Janko Konstantinov was built in multiple steps. The project isolates a unique element from the two main construction phases, which becomes pattern, by clearly showing the formal evolution of the structure.
Key words
Window – Pattern
Section
Drawing
15/06/2018
In
Title of the work
BLOKOVI
Short description of the work
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.
Key words
Novi – Beograd – Urbanization – Ex-yugoslavia
Section
Photo
15/06/2018
In
Title of the work
operazioni (il)legittime
Cattedrale
Tramonto
Short description of the work
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.
Key words
Involucri – Maschere – Sk2014 – Poste – Konstantinov – Brutalismo
Section
Photo
15/06/2018
In
Title of the work
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
Key words
Epicenter – Black hole – FORGETFULNESS – 1963 – Libra – Transeunte
Section
Drawing
15/06/2018
In
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
Section
Text
15/06/2018
In
Title of the work
Brutalizamot vo funkcija na UKIM
Short description of the work
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.
Key words
Brutalizam – Univerzitetski kompleks sv. Kiril i Metodij – Praven Fakultet
Section
Photo
15/06/2018
In
Title of the work
Game of Form
Short description of the work
Residential quarter as part of a utopian city inspired by the brutalist architecture.
Key words
Solids – Axonometry – concrete
Section
Drawing
15/06/2018
In
Title of the work
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
Short description of the work
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
Key words
Section
Photo
15/06/2018
In
Title of the work
Скопје што го знам јас
Short description of the work
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.
Key words
Мое – Скопје
Section
Photo
15/06/2018
In
Title of the work
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.
Key words
Brutalism – Neoclassicism – Klientalism
Section
Photo
15/06/2018
In
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
Section
Drawing
15/06/2018
In
Title of the work
Brutalism of Skopje
Short description of the work
4 photographs from Skopje Brutalism, from Post Office, Gradski Zid and Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopjе.
Key words
Brutalism – Skopje – Macedonia
Section
Photo
13/06/2018
In
Title of the work
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.
Key words
Skopje – Brutalism – Collages
Section
Drawing
13/06/2018
In
Title of the work
Sabagiro
Short description of the work
Sabagiro is a 10 minute video about traveling. In Chiatura, an industrial city in Georgia, inhabitants are still using the old cable car system which was built in the fifties to transport workers around the valley and up to the mines. Today only 20% of the system is still in use. In a rusty cabin crossing the valley, people meet, chat or sit still while staff members manage the system with old buttons and handlebars. The video shows the interaction between these people during their daily life in a very unusual scenery.
Key words
Timemachine – Elevator- Unusual
Section
Video
13/06/2018
In
Title of the work
Hotel Jugoslavija
Short description of the work
The monument loses its nature, continuous metamorphosis, becomes an incubator of human lives. Hotel Jugoslavija, new of device of the common living.
Key words
Collage
Section
Drawing
13/06/2018
In
Title of the work
Goce Delčev student dormitory
Medical High School Panche Karagjozov
Nikola Karev High School
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University
Short description of the work
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.
Key words
Modernism – Concrete – Brutalism
Section
Photo
13/06/2018
In
Title of the work
196 days in the east
Short description of the work
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.
Key words
People – Street – Macedonia
Section
Photo
13/06/2018
In
Title of the work
Sarajevo Reports
Short description of the work
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.
Key words
Sarajevo – Olympics – Bosnia
Section
Photo
13/06/2018
In
Title of the work
Skopje 2015
Short description of the work
Urban landscape Skopje, photographed in 2015.
Key words
Skopje – Architecture – Urbanism
Section
Photo
13/06/2018
In
Title of the work
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.
Key words
Three-generation – Heritage – Value
Section
Photo
13/06/2018
In
Title of the work
Cement invasion_vs_future light
Short description of the work
A lawn can be born from a trampled ground. My optimistic wish borns from the hope that a territorial energy of a fertile country can flourish starting from an architecture capable of supporting human dynamism.
Key words
Energy – Light – Power – Future
Section
Drawing
12/06/2018
In
Title of the work
Wallpaper
Short description of the work
The artwork is an elaboration of Janko Konstantinov’s iconic work built in the 80s: the Post Office and Telecommunications Center. It is intended to be a diptych showing two details of the building repeated ad infinitum. In the first we have the body of brutalist architecture, Konstantinov’s work on prefab modules, light and shadows. In the second contemporary technological adaptation resulting in a new pattern of air conditioning units that one can see on the façade. Based on two photographs taken by the author in 2016.
Key words
Façade – Konstantinov – Wallpaper
Section
Drawing
05/06/2018
In
Title of the work
Stairface 1
Stairface 2
Concrete Abstract
Concrete Abstract 2
Short description of the work
Diverse chaotic reconstructions of a concrete structure. Patterns and surprising elements emerge from this process, highlighting was is always there but never really seen.
Key words
concrete, deconstruction, abstract
Section
Drawing