Session
Architecture and Spatial Planning
Description
The adjective “regional” attached to the word “architecture” implies that there is something special about the architecture of a particular locality, something that occurs nowhere else. It is obvious, therefore, that to know what is regional one must first know what is local. With the all-obliterating spread of Modernism in Macedonia, efforts which were made to highlight regional and local concerns were left without enough support to survive. In the early 1970s, few young architects from Macedonia found a medium to exercise their own kind of regionalism which allowed it to exist within the parameters of modernism. There are notable exceptions, for example the works of Boris Cipan, Petar Mulickoski, Georgi Konstantinovski, Janko Konstantinov, Slavko Brezoski, etc.
The purpose of this research is to present at first the moment of architects’ involvement in presenting architectural heritage as a value on which the question of national identity can be raised. It is obvious that here we explore how architecture and architectural heritage can serve as the basis on which the image of Macedonian national identity will be created.
Secondly, the attempt of this research is to show the way regionalism emerged at different periods during the development of modernism in Macedonia. This includes presenting architectural approaches in borrowings and modifications made to country's architectural heritage details in order to achieve regionalism in modern architecture in Macedonia. Finally, while presenting projects, it is clear that we deal with different variations of presenting regionalism, depending on the period of creation of modernism in Macedonia, and on the authors’ purpose of creating modern style - being close to internationalism, or being rebellious in the search of the national identity through country's vernacular architecture.
Keywords:
history of architecture, architectural heritage, Regionalism, Modernism, Macedonia.
Session Chair
Caroline Jaeger-Klein
Session Co-Chair
Bekim Ceko
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-550-19-2
First Page
99
Last Page
112
Location
Pristina, Kosovo
Start Date
26-10-2019 3:30 PM
End Date
26-10-2019 5:00 PM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2019.248
Recommended Citation
Elezi, Kujtim and Sadiki, Arbër, "From local to global" (2019). UBT International Conference. 248.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2019/events/248
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From local to global
Pristina, Kosovo
The adjective “regional” attached to the word “architecture” implies that there is something special about the architecture of a particular locality, something that occurs nowhere else. It is obvious, therefore, that to know what is regional one must first know what is local. With the all-obliterating spread of Modernism in Macedonia, efforts which were made to highlight regional and local concerns were left without enough support to survive. In the early 1970s, few young architects from Macedonia found a medium to exercise their own kind of regionalism which allowed it to exist within the parameters of modernism. There are notable exceptions, for example the works of Boris Cipan, Petar Mulickoski, Georgi Konstantinovski, Janko Konstantinov, Slavko Brezoski, etc.
The purpose of this research is to present at first the moment of architects’ involvement in presenting architectural heritage as a value on which the question of national identity can be raised. It is obvious that here we explore how architecture and architectural heritage can serve as the basis on which the image of Macedonian national identity will be created.
Secondly, the attempt of this research is to show the way regionalism emerged at different periods during the development of modernism in Macedonia. This includes presenting architectural approaches in borrowings and modifications made to country's architectural heritage details in order to achieve regionalism in modern architecture in Macedonia. Finally, while presenting projects, it is clear that we deal with different variations of presenting regionalism, depending on the period of creation of modernism in Macedonia, and on the authors’ purpose of creating modern style - being close to internationalism, or being rebellious in the search of the national identity through country's vernacular architecture.