WELCOME TO
THE
SKOPJE
PROJECT
The project for reconstruction of the city of Skopje after the devastating earthquake in 1963 represented the occasion for world architects and urban planners to accomplish a truly world project, the universal project promoting the universal values of the humanity achieved through the tools and instruments of architecture and international collaboration. What if the reconstruction of Skopje happened today? What if, in the aftermath of the catastrophic event, the same unilateral call to solidarity occurred and the entire world came together in support of the city? What if leadership insisted on using this catastrophe as an opportunity to find new models for economic, infrastructural, political, and urban reconstruction? If that happened, what would architects, planners, policy makers, economists, sociologists, and other committed participants to reconstruction do?
THE SPEAKERS
Reinier de Graff
OMA/AMO
Reinier de Graff
OMA/AMO
Partner OMA/AMO
Reinier de Graaf joined OMA in 1996. He is responsible for building and masterplanning projects in Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, including Holland Green in London (completed 2016), the new Timmerhuis in Rotterdam (completed 2015), G-Star Headquarters in Amsterdam (completed 2014), De Rotterdam (completed 2013), and the Norra Tornen residential towers in Stockholm.
In 2002, he co-founded AMO, the think tank of OMA, and produced The Image of Europe, an exhibition illustrating the history of the European Union. He has overseen AMO’s increasing involvement in sustainability and energy planning. He is the author of Four Walls and a Roof, The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession.
Prof. Charles Waldheim
John E. Irving Professor, Office for
Urbanization / Harvard University GSD
Prof. Charles Waldheim
John E. Irving Professor, Office for
Urbanization / Harvard University GSD
Office for Urbanization / Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Charles Waldheim, the John E. Irving Professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, is a North American architect, urbanist, and educator. Waldheim’s research examines the relations between landscape, ecology, and contemporary urbanism. He coined the term ‘landscape urbanism’ to describe the emergent discourse and practices of landscape in relation to design culture and contemporary urbanization.
. On these topics, he is author of Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory and editor of The Landscape Urbanism Reader. Waldheim is John E. Irving Professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design where he directs the School’s Office for Urbanization. He is recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome; the Visiting Scholar Research Fellowship at the Study Centre of the Canadian Centre for Architecture; the Cullinan Chair at Rice University; and the Sanders Fellowship at the University of Michigan.
Sou Fujimoto
Sou Fujimoto Architects
Sou Fujimoto
SOU FUJIMOTO ARCHITECTS
SOU FUJIMOTO ARCHITECTS
Sou Fujimoto was born in Hokkaido in 1971. Graduated from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering at Tokyo University, he established Sou Fujimoto Architects in 2000. Among his recent renowned projects is the 1st prize for the 2014 International Competition for the Second Folly of Montpellier, France (“L’Arbre Blanc”). Additionally, in 2015, 2017 and 2018, he won several international competitions with 1st prize in various European countries. In 2019, he was selected as the Master Architect for Tsuda University Kodaira Campus Master Plan development.
His notable works include; “Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013” (2013), “House NA” (2011), “Musashino Art University Museum & Library” (2010), “House N” (2008) and many more. He has garnered many awards, including the 2010 Rice Design Alliance Prize; the 2009 Wallpaper* magazine Design Awards for the Best New Private House (for Final Wooden House, Kamakura, Japan); and the winning award in the 2008 World Architectural Festival, Private House Category (also for Final Wooden House). The work of Fujimoto was represented at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010. His 2008 book Primitive Future was the year’s best-selling architecture book.
Prof. Hajime Yatsuka, Ph.D.
EMERITUS PROFESSOR AT SHIBAURA
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Prof. Hajime Yatsuka, Ph.D.
EMERITUS PROFESSOR AT SHIBAURA
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Emeritus professor at Shibaura Institute of Technology
Hajime Yatsuka is an architect and emeritus professor at Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo. His concern as a researcher and critic focuses on architecture and urbanism of 20th century Japan and the world. Among his book publications are: Le Corbusier- Urbanism as Biopolitics (Seidosha, 2013), Metabolism Nexus (Ohmsha, 2011), Shiso toshite no Nihon kindai kenchiku (Modern Japanese Architecture as Intellectual History) (Iwanami, 2005).
His translated texts have been published in many journals in the US and Europe. He is now working on the Constructivism of Soviet Russia, as found in politics, economy, art and urbanism.
Prof. Dirk van den Heuvel, Ph.D.
Director of jaap bakema
research center
Prof. Dirk van den Heuvel, Ph.D.
DIRECTOR OF JAAP BAKEMA
RESEARCH CENTER
TU Delft / Jaap Bakema Study Centre, Het Nieuwe Instituut
Dirk van den Heuvel is an Associate Professor with the chair of Architecture & Dwelling at TU Delft. He is also the Head of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. His expertise is in postwar modern architecture and planning, and its related fields of architecture theory and history, cultural studies and discourse analysis. His most recent book publication is ‘Jaap Bakema and the Open Society’ (Archis, 2018).
Van den Heuvel is an editor to the publication series DASH – Delft Architectural Studies on Housing, the architecture theory journal Footprint, and the architecture research journal VLC Arquitectura. He was also an editor of the Dutch journal OASE (1993-1999).
Prof. Deborah Hauptmann
Chair of Architecture,
Iowa State University
Prof. Deborah Hauptmann
CHAIR OF ARCHITECTURE,
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
Chair of Architecture Iowa State University
Deborah Hauptmann is Professor and Chair of Architecture at Iowa State University, prior to which she was Director of the Delft School of Design at the TU Delft. Hauptmann’s research draws on a transdisciplinary approach to architecture. Her work argues that our lived environment, alters, affects, and transforms us at the level of body and brain and thus, architects as producers of culture and ideology possess the means to transform our fundamental relation to world.
Through a Foucauldian discourse on power, she questions not what architecture is, but how it acts. Publications include: Cognitive Architecture: From Biopolitics to Noopolitics (010/2010 w/ W. Neidich); The Body in Architecture (010/2006); ‘Repositioning: The after(s) and the end(s) of theory’, in This Thing Called Theory, 2016; ‘Northern Line’, (w/ A. Radman), in Deleuze and Architecture, 2013; Forward to Writing and Seeing Architecture 2008. Since 2010, she has participated in the Biennale Sessions /Venice Biennale in Architecture hosting international workshops and symposia.
Prof. Aneta Hristova Popovska
Faculty of Architecture, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje
Prof. Aneta Hristova Popovska
FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, UNIVERSITY SS. CYRIL AND METHODIUS, SKOPJE
FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, UNIVERSITY SS. CYRIL AND METHODIUS
Aneta Hristova-Popovska, Phd., is a full professor of architectural theory and architectural design of public buildings at the Faculty of Architecture, S.S. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. She conducted several national and international projects including Architectural Oeuvre of Slavko Brezoski, 2019; Documenting and Archive of the Architectural Oeuvre of Zivko Popovski, 2019; To Skopje With Love, 2017; Architecture as a Cultural Sustainability Factor of the Macedonian Cities 2012; Eine Hauptstadt im Umbruch: Die Postsozialistische Stadtentwickelung von Skopje, 2008; Pilot Activities for Education and Culture, Management and Conservation of Macedonian Cultural Heritage, Skopje 2008; Architectural Heritage Today IRCICA 1996
She has completed a significant number of professional and academic visitations at foreign universities and professional institutions: Ahern & Macvittie Architects LTD, Arizona; Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture – Istanbul; The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University; ASU College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Arizona; Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, UK; Bauhaus – Univeristät Weimar. Hristova-Popovska was a UIA Science and Hi-Tech Facilities Work Programme (1999-2003) national representative, member of ISDRS, member of AAM, member of the editorial board of the architectural magazines A: and Informator (SAM). She has won several national and international architectural design awards.
Prof. Ines Tolic, Ph.D.
University of Bologna
Prof. Ines Tolic, Ph.D.
UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA
University of Bologna
Ines Tolic is an Associate Professor in History of Architecture at the University of Bologna and member of the PhD Research Board in Science and Culture of Well-being and Lifestyles. She graduated in Architecture from the Università Iuav di Venezia, and received a PhD in the History of Architecture and Urban History at the School of Advanced Studies in Venice. In 2009, her dissertation, dealing with the reconstruction of Skopje between 1963 and 1966, won the Gubbio Prize (ANCSA). She wrote about the representation of architecture; about the role of United Nations as a global planning agency; about post-war architecture and urban design in Japan, and about post-apartheid architecture in South Africa.
She has collaborated with the international research projects Unfinished modernisations [EU Culture programme 2007-2013], Visualizing Venice [http://www.visualizingvenice.org/visu/] and Delos Network [https://delosnetwork.com]. She is a member of the editorial board of “Histories of postwar architecture”, “Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes”, “ZoneModa Journal” and of the publishing series Culture, Fashion and Society (Pearson Mondadori). She is an auditor for the Italian Association of Urban History (AISU), member of the Culture Fashion Communication International Research Group (CFC) and a representative for the Emilia Romagna Region within the Italian Association of Architectural Historians (AISTARCH).
MODERATORS
Prof. Ognen Marina, PH.D.
Faculty of Architecture, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje
Prof. Ognen Marina, PH.D.
FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, UNIVERSITY SS. CYRIL AND METHODIUS, SKOPJE
FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, UNIVERSITY SS. CYRIL AND METHODIUS
Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, University “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” in Skopje Ognen Marina, architect, PhD in Architecture and Urbanism Professor at Faculty of Architecture, University “SS. Cyril and Methodius” in Skopje, Macedonia. His main field of interest is in novel strategies in architecture. He is particularly interested in processes of urban transformation and urban innovation through hybridization in the context of transitional societies.
He is active in promotion of novel tools in development of urban environment that could enhance better citizens’ participation and cooperation with decision makers and designers. He is author of several papers and books related to analysis, assessment and modeling of urban development and its impact on the cities and society. He is also a coordinator and member of several Horizon 2020 Programme research projects and scientific networks exploring the new social challenges of the urban environment and developing digital tools for spatial analysis of urban change.
Prof. Mitesh Dixit
DOMAIN Office
Prof. Mitesh Dixit
DOMAIN Office
DOMAIN Office
Mitesh Dixit is an architect, political geographer, author, educator and the founder of DOMAIN Office, an architecture and urbanism studio based in Belgrade, Serbia and New York City. Dixit’s work focuses on the intersection of design with government policy, society, and culture. Currently, his research explores the crafting of the region and border conditions in the Balkans and along the US-Mexico border, tracing the effects of ideology in the transformations of the built environment. Dixit has taught at the TU Delft in the Netherlands, The Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, and the School of Architecture at Syracuse University, the Faculty of Architecture in Skopje, N. Macedonia, and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning, and Preservation. Throughout 2016, Dixit lectured internationally, conducted workshops, and seminars on behalf of the US Department of State.
After completing undergraduate and graduate work in politics and philosophy, Dixit completed the Master of Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis and then began his career at the San Francisco office of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. Prior to DOMAIN, Dixit worked with Rem Koolhaas’ Office for Metropolitan Architecture as a project leader. While at OMA, Dixit led multiple international projects, such as the MahaNaKhon Tower in Bangkok, Holland Green in London, East Block 30 in Cairo, and the Kuala Lumpur Financial District in Malaysia
SKOPJE LECTURE SERIES
Prof. Keller Easterling
Yale University
Prof. Keller Easterling
YALE UNIVERSITY
Yale University School of Architecture
Keller Easterling is an architect, writer and professor at Yale. Her most recent book, Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Verso, 2014), examines global infrastructure as a medium of polity. A recently published e-book essay titled Medium Design (Strelka Press, 2018) previews a forthcoming book of the same title. Medium Design inverts an emphasis on object and figure to prompt innovative thought about both spatial and non-spatial problems.
Easterling is also the co-author (with Richard Prelinger) of Call it Home: The House that Private Enterprise Built, a laserdisc/DVD history of US suburbia from 1934–1960.
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Prof. Mark Linder, Ph.D.
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Prof. Mark Linder, Ph.D.
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Mark Linder is a Professor of Architecture at Syracuse University where he was also Chancellor’s Fellow in the Humanities (2011-14). His research explores design theory and history considered in a transdisciplinary framework with a focus on modern architecture since 1950.
He is the author of Nothing Less than Literal: Architecture after Minimalism (MIT 2004) and is completing work on a book titled That’s Brutal, What’s Modern?: The Smithsons, Banham and the Mies-Image, which argues that the intellectual formation and design practices of The New Brutalism are early, exemplary instances of modern architecture coming to terms with the question, “What would architectural practice become if imaging were its acknowledged means and ends?” He has lectured throughout the United States and Europe and has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, Harvard, University of Illinois-Chicago, Rice, IIT, RISD, and UCLA.
AGENDA
Keynote lecture 1
Wednesday,
October 21st, 2020
October 21st, 2020
Faculty of Architecture
19:00
Reinier de Graaf
OMA/AMO
Opening remarks: Prof. Ognen Marina, PhD /
Introduction: Prof. Mitesh Dixit
Symposium
Thursday,
October 22nd, 2020
October 22nd, 2020
Museum of Contemporary
Art in Skopje
10:00-12:30
Part I
Prof. Ines Tolic, PhD
Prof. Hajime Yatsuka, PhD
13:30-16:00
Part II
Prof. Dirk van den Heuvel, PhD
Prof. Aneta Hristovska
16:30-17:30
Part III
Prof. Deborah Hauptman
Keynote lecture 2
Thursday,
October 22nd, 2020
October 22nd, 2020
Museum of Contemporary
Art in Skopje
17:30
Prof. Charles Waldheim
Harvard University GSD
Opening remarks: Prof. Ognen Marina, PhD
Keynote lecture 3
Friday,
October 23rd, 2020
October 23rd, 2020
Faculty of Architecture
12:00-14:00
Sou Fujimoto
Sou Fujimoto Architects
Opening remarks: Prof. Ognen Marina, PhD
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