Ana, Vladimir & Jovan will be conducting the Tour of Modern Skopje and holding a lecture on their decade long study on the preservation & promotion of Skopje’s Modernism also exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Dr. Ana Ivanovska Deskova is an Associate Professor at the Department for Protection of Cultural Heritage, History of Architecture and Art at the Faculty of Architecture, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. She holds a Master of Science and PhD from the same institution. She teaches the History of Modern Architecture and courses related to the Protection and rehabilitation of Cultural Heritage. Her main research interest is the modern architecture in Skopje, especially the reconstruction of Skopje after the earthquake in 1963. She is the author of numerous research projects and exhibitions on architecture. Among others: „Atlas of the Macedonian Modern Architecture”, held in 2022 at Youth Cultural Center in Skopje; “The Role of the Women Architects in the post-earthquake Renewal of Skopje” held in 2022 in the Museum of North Macedonia in Skopje, “Future as a Project – Doxiadis in Skopje”, held in 2018 in Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece, “Skopje – Architecture in the Macedonian Context”, held in Ringturm gallery, Vienna, Austria (2017), “Constructing a Modernist Utopia: The Architecture of The Post-Earthquake Renewal of Skopje, 1963-1981”, held in Gallery MC, New York City, USA (2017). In 2008 and 2014 she was one of the authors of the Macedonian National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture. From 2016 to 2018, she was a member of the curatorial advisory board for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, for the 2018 exhibition ‘Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980’.
Dr. Jovan Ivanovski is a Professor at the Department of Architectural Design at the Faculty of Architecture, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. He finished his Master’s Studies at Dessau Institute of Architecture in Germany (DAAD Alumni) and holds a PhD from the Faculty of Architecture, UKIM, Skopje. Practiced architecture in offices in Switzerland and Germany. His main research interest is the spatial transformation of Skopje during the period of the post-socialist transition. He is the author of numerous research projects and exhibitions on architecture. Among others: „Atlas of the Macedonian Modern Architecture”, held in 2022 at Youth Cultural Center in Skopje; “The Role of the Women Architects in the post-earthquake Renewal of Skopje” held in 2022 in the Museum of North Macedonia in Skopje, “Future as a Project – Doxiadis in Skopje”, held in 2018 in Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece, “Skopje – Architecture in the Macedonian Context”, held in Ringturm gallery, Vienna, Austria (2017), “Constructing a Modernist Utopia: The Architecture of The Post-Earthquake Renewal of Skopje, 1963-1981”, held in Gallery MC, New York City, USA (2017). He was curator of the Macedonian National Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale of Architecture, and one of the authors in 2006 and 2008. From 2016 to 2018, he was a member of the curatorial advisory board for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, for the 2018 exhibition ‘Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980’.
Vladimir Deskov is a Teaching Assistant and Lecturer at the School of Architecture and Design, University American College Skopje. He holds a Diploma in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius Skopje. Currently, he is a Dr. Sci. candidate at the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb, Croatia. His primary research focuses on the modernization of Skopje, examining how economic, political, and social transformations impact the city’s architecture and urban development. He is the author of numerous research projects and exhibitions on architecture. Among others: „Atlas of the Macedonian Modern Architecture”, held in 2022 at Youth Cultural Center in Skopje; “The Role of the Women Architects in the post-earthquake Renewal of Skopje” held in 2022 in the Museum of North Macedonia in Skopje, “Future as a Project – Doxiadis in Skopje”, held in 2018 in Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece, “Skopje – Architecture in the Macedonian Context”, held in Ringturm gallery, Vienna, Austria (2017), “Constructing a Modernist Utopia: The Architecture of The Post-Earthquake Renewal of Skopje, 1963-1981”, held in Gallery MC, New York City, USA (2017). In 2008 and 2014 he was one of the authors of the Macedonian National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture. From 2016 to 2018, he was a member of the curatorial advisory board for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, for the 2018 exhibition ‘Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980’.
Architecture of the Utopian City: The Case of Skopje
Skopje is a city situated on a geopolitical crossroad, amidst cultural influences produced and overlapped by rising and declining civilizations. Over the course of history, the city – like the Balkans in general – has been subjected to irregular intervals of (unfinished) urban transformations. These circumstances created very dynamic socio-spatial landscape, rich of contradictory realities, which played a central role in the historic transformation of the city and its architecture.
The built heritage of Skopje is a vivid example of how diverse political concepts, different stages of economic and social development, international architectural movements and technological progress can influence the development of city’s architecture and urban landscape. At the same time, Skopje is an example how a certain historical event – the catastrophic earthquake of 1963 – can become a possibility for the future; interrupting the rapid pace of post WW2 development, this instant natural act of hasty violence on the one hand destroyed nearly 80% of the city, but on the other, became a trigger for new, even more radical type of modernization.
The UN led post-earthquake reconstruction, propelled unprecedented international solidarity and was high in ambition – to promote Skopje as an exemplary global city. At the peak of the Cold War, at a time when the polarization between the two conflicting political blocks was at its highest, Skopje’s post-earthquake renewal process defined solidarity and cooperation as its leading principal. Previously local and unknown Skopje, suddenly became a field of international collaboration, where world’s prominent architects and planners (Van den Broek and Bakema, Kenzo Tange, Konstantinos Doxiadis, Adolf Ciborowski etc.) worked in parallel with authors from Macedonia and other parts of Yugoslavia. The city became a laboratory experimenting with the latest urban forms and architectural paradigms; consequently, the architectural output was not defined by a single style or aesthetic. It rather presented a vibrant pluralism of influences coming from around the world – Japanese metabolism, Dutch Structuralism, Brutalism, together with the continuation of the well-established modernist principles – all appropriated, digested and creating quite unique architectural identity. Built with high architectural ambition, introducing higher standard of culture, education and living, the buildings of the post-earthquake reconstruction of Skopje still remain to be the undoubtedly most powerful segment within its recent architectural history.
The tour as well as the lecture will be held on the 3rd of July 2024 in Skopje, Macedonia
César Bargues Ballester is an Associate Project Specialist at the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) in Los Angeles, USA. He is involved in several projects, including research, publications, and training activities, working towards the goals of the Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative (CMAI). His work on material conservation involves a study of the infill panels, a significant component of the Eames House building envelope, which is a continuation of the on-site investigations and assessments conducted by a multidisciplinary group of consultants and GCI staff members to inform the development of a conservation management plan for the site. Prior to joining the GCI in 2018, he was a Research Associate at the University of Pennsylvania, conducting research and managing multi-phase projects. Besides formal training in business disciplines, César holds a master’s degree in architecture from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, and a Master of Science in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania. He is an active member of various professional associations and serves on the SAH Strategic Planning Committee.
As part of the Keeping It Modern seminar and the Kosovo Architecture Festival Cesar will be holding several lectures on the Getty Initiatives and Conservation & Management Plans. For full details check the KIM & KAFx12 program.
Blerta Kambo is an Albanian artist, activist, photographer and film maker based in Tirana.
Her personal projects follow a conceptual approach, hinged around themes of social and environmental justice, archive, fiction/multiple truths, ecofeminism, and architecture embedded in space, expressing the underlying narrative in their social contexts. Her 16-year commercial experience as a photographer includes documentary, architecture and politics (as photographer for Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama) also advertising, corporate and fashion. In 2019 she studied filmmaking at the London Film School (UK) and is currently working more with the moving image, both in documentary/ narrative -fiction and video art.
In 2023 she was a finalist for the Circa Prize, London, UK with her performance-video “Heavy stone”. Her latest project ‘Man of the castle’, a contemporary allegory of gender justice, of feminism in defence of men, was exhibited twice in Tirana, to positive reviews. She is a Member of AWA (Albanian women in audio-visual) and the Feminist Collective (Albania)
She is a 2024 LINA fellow with the Kosovo Architecture Foundation. Her object of visual research and artistic intervention is the ‘Palace of Youth’ in Prishtina.
Her lecture will be held Friday July 5th from 18.45 at Kino Armata.
Tinatin Gurgenitdze lives and works between Berlin and Tbilisi. Trained as an architect and urban designer, Tinatin is involved in research and curatorial work regarding critical urban issues. Tinatin is one of the founders of the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial and was the curator of the Georgian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2021. Tinatin is also an author of several publications and articles in journals as “Architectural review” and “Failed Architecture”.
Her lecture will be held at Kino Armata on 3rd of July 2024 from 19.15
Ana Dana Beros is an architect with a ‘critical spatial practice’ that encompasses artistic research, documentary filmmaking, curating, publishing/broadcasting, and exhibition design. She is based between Zagreb, Graz and Trieste.
Co-founder of ARCHIsquad – Division for Architecture with Conscience and its educational program UrgentArchitecture in Croatia (2006-2015). Her interest in architectural theory, experimental design, and publishing as a spatializing practice led her to co-found the international platforms Think Space (2010-2015) and Future Architecture (2016-2021), and she is currently involved with LINA (2022-2025). As a LINA member, she curates DAI-SAI projects From Care to Cure and Back and Architecture of Cure, which investigate the critical architectural heritage of The Children’s Maritime Health Resort of Military Insured Persons in Krvavica. These projects aim to transform both material and immaterial environments from “spaces of common disease” into places of “common healing.”
Her lecture will be held at Kino Armata on Wendnesday 3rd of July 2024 from 18.45.
Amin Taha was born in Berlin and is settled in London, after graduating from the University of Edinburgh he worked in the offices of Zaha Hadid before setting up in private practice. He is chairperson at GROUPWORK, teaches architecture at the Royal College of Art, GSD_Harvard and its cross over into engineering at University College London. He is also a trustee at the Sir John Soane Museum and chair of the annual Soane Medal jury.
GROUPWORK
GROUPWORK is an employee ownership trust of architects in which all are partners sharing responsibilities and income. This ethical foundation is followed through the work by understanding and apply structural, embodied carbon as well as lyrical properties of materials and broader social possibilities in architectural programs. Completed buildings going onto be three times selected and short-listed for the RIBA Stirling Prize and characterized by Rowan Moore, The Guardian and Observer architecture correspondent as “poetry through material assembly”.
Amin’s lecture will be held at Kino Armata on Wednesday 3rd of July 2024 from 20.00.
Cristina Steingräber, a historian of art and architecture based in Berlin, is the cofounder and CEO of ArchiTangle, an independent publisher and digital tech start-up dedicated to socially engaged architectural practice and urbanism. Her academic and professional efforts focus on interdisciplinary knowledge transfer on how architecture can engage with other disciplines in shaping the built environment.
Initially a curator at the National Gallery in Berlin (Nationalgalerie), Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (SMB), Steingräber was appointed head of the SMB’s publications department in 2004. Thereafter, Steingräber spent more than a decade as program director and CEO of Hatje Cantz, a leading global publisher in the visual arts, photography, and architecture (2006–17). She possesses deep industry expertise, and as an expert in architecture history, bookmaking, and a technology enthusiast, Steingräber, with her firm, is introducing the integration of traditional print and cutting-edge technology through blockchain-based digital book extensions, adding a new dimension to knowledge transfer in the field. She holds a PhD in art and architectural history from Kiel University (CAU) alongside an MBA in Economics, focusing on innovation and digital transformation, from the prestigious TUM School of Management at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). In 2023, Steingräber established a foundation. The aim of the ArchiTangle Foundation is to improve living conditions globally through digital knowledge transfer in the built environment. The Foundation supports projects in the fields of architecture, urbanism, housing, and human rights. It carries out its own projects and supports charitable initiatives by other organizations. Steingräber is frequently engaged as an invited lecturer, critic, and jury member in the fields of art, architecture and business development.
ArchiTangle is an independent book publisher and tech start-up. By combining traditional print books with innovative digital formats, ArchiTangle aims to disseminate and preserve architectural knowledge, ensuring its accessibility for future generations.
The core of ArchiTangle’s program focuses on publishing books that highlight architectural projects with substantial social impact, thus upholding cultural and ethical values in architecture. These publications explore how architecture can address pressing issues—such as urban and rural development, social justice, community engagement, and responsible building practices—and shape the built environment. By partnering with renowned institutions, architects, and artists, ArchiTangle produces publications that showcase innovative design while provoking thoughtful discourse on the role of architecture in society.
A key feature of ArchiTangle’s offerings is the deep-tech innovation Book+, which provides additional digital content to complement traditional print publications. The content is stored using cutting-edge blockchain technology. This exceptional approach ensures that information remains tamper-proof and accessible for generations to come, adding a new dimension to architectural publishing. Book+ enriches the readers’ understanding of the context, scope, and significance of the featured projects, providing ongoing insights and preserving the integrity of the data like never before.
ArchiTangle’s commitment extends beyond the physical book, offering comprehensive publishing services that manage the entire process—from consulting, research, and content creation to graphic design, editing, and production. The goal is to make architectural publications cultural assets by maintaining the highest standards of quality in content and by focusing on sustainable material selection.
from the 1st till the 4th of July 2024, one of the most esteemed personalities in the world of Modern Architecture preservation, Mrs. Sheridan Burke will be holding several keynotes as part of the Keeping It Modern – New Perspectives for Modern Heritage in the SEE region, culminating with a keynote at the Kosovo Architecture Festival on the 4th of July at Kino Armata starting from 18:30.
Sheridan is a heritage consultant, based in Sydney, Australia, trained in planning and architecture. She has worked for government, corporates and NGOs in cultural heritage management for more than 35 years, building extensive experience in developing practical, strategic outcomes for the future of heritage places- from the Eames House in Los Angeles to the Abraj Al Kuwait water towers in Kuwait.
Twentieth Century heritage advocacy is her specialist field of interest, publishing widely and contributing to the development and delivery of the ICOMOS international Heritage Alerts program and the Keeping It Modern program for the Getty Conservation Institute since 2014. She is currently an adviser and instructor for the GCI’s Modern Architecture Conservation course, first offered in 2023.
Sheridan is a founding president of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Twentieth Century Heritage; and has served in many executive roles on the ICOMOS international Board, currently as its Advisory Committee Vice President. As a cultural heritage advisor for ICOMOS she has undertaken UNESCO World Heritage missions in Africa, Asia and the Americas.
Sheridan is an appointed expert member of several NSW Planning Panels and a former chair of the State Heritage Register Committee and deputy chair of the NSW Heritage Council. She is currently chair of the Eryldene Trust in Sydney, managing an historic house and garden through climate change challenges.
Sheridan has been a member of the Sydney Opera House Conservation Council for 16 years and also sits on its Design Advisory Panel, engaging with major projects from redrafting the site Conservation Plan to the recent capital works projects of the SOH’s Decade of Renewal -improving access to all public areas of the House , refurbishing the opera and concert halls, establishing the Centre for Creativity and integrating new venue, food and beverage opportunities as well as the recent update of the site’s Strategic Building Plan and development of its Heritage Action Plan.
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E+D are Ena Kukić and Dinko Jelečević, whose work in architecture explores existing spatial fragments of collective memory and creates new ones. They consider projects holistically, incorporating the existing context, historical backdrop, and the needs of the local community, with a primary focus on revitalizing and adapting typologies for collective use. Their accolades include the prestigious EU Mies Young Talent Award, finalist recognition at the Archiprix Biennale, two National Collegium Artisticum awards, and numerous prizes in public competitions.
Ena Kukić is an architectural designer and researcher based in Graz, Austria. She lectures at the Institute of Construction and Design Principles at Graz University of Technology, where she teaches design studios and model making. In her design studios, she focuses on typologies of exhibition and education, and her model-making course has centered on Yugoslav monuments over three consecutive years, investigating the architectural language of commemoration in a modernist context. Ena’s research, as a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Design and Building Typology at the same university, revolves around engaging with the spatial framework of collective memory, exploring the creation, transmission, and reflection of narratives juxtaposed with architectural backdrops. Born in 1990 in Sarajevo, Ena studied architecture in her hometown as well as in Barcelona and Graz, concentrating on architectural typologies and their contribution to the intergenerational transmission of memory. Her Master’s Thesis in memorial architecture (War Tunnel Museum in Sarajevo) won the 2018 Austrian GAD Award, and she was selected as a finalist at the Archiprix International Biennale 2019. She actively participates in public discourse on the interconnection of architecture and politics, frequently publishing articles and taking part in scientific events, most recently at Princeton University during the conference on Svetlana Kana Radević.
Dinko Jelečević is an architectural designer also based in Graz, Austria. He works as an architect in an office, currently developing a project for the liminal space of the city. Additionally, within his private practice, he has been creating architectural visualizations of unbuilt spaces for numerous international offices for the past five years. Born in 1990 in Zvornik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dinko studied architecture in Sarajevo, Barcelona, and Graz, simultaneously working as a freelance visual artist. His Master’s Thesis at Graz University of Technology (Vraca Forum in Sarajevo) won the 2023 EU Mies Young Talent Award, showcasing his interest in an adaptive reuse approach to existing structures.
Ena and Dinko have developed several design proposals for the revitalization of industrial heritage in Bosnia and Herzegovina, winning the renowned national Collegium Artisticum Award for Best Newcomers in 2018 and Best Concept Design in 2019. The most significant project was the Center for Contemporary Culture KRAK in the northwest Bosnian town of Bihać, where a workers’ club from the Yugoslav era was transformed into a cultural hub, serving as an art hotspot in the Balkans. Other notable proposals include a memorial park in Sarajevo, the adaptive reuse of a water tower in Bihać, and a community center in Kirchbach.
Apart from design projects, they also engage in research, primarily focusing on specific places and objects throughout the Balkans. Important research projects include K67 Kiosks, the Alipašino Polje housing block in Sarajevo, and Yugoslav monuments.
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E+D janë Ena Kukić dhe Dinko Jelečević, puna e të cilëve në arkitekturë eksploron fragmente ekzistuese hapësinore të kujtesës kolektive dhe krijon të reja. Ata i qasen projekteve në mënyrë holistike, duke përfshirë kontekstin ekzistues, sfondin historik dhe nevojat e komunitetit lokal, me fokus kryesor në rivitalizimin dhe adaptimin e tipologjive për përdorim kolektiv. Ndër vlerësimet e tyre përfshihen çmimi prestigjioz EU Mies Young Talent Award, përzgjedhja si finalistë në Archiprix Biennale, dy çmime kombëtare Collegium Artisticum, si dhe shumë çmime në konkurse publike.
Ena Kukić është arkitekte dhe hulumtuese me bazë në Graz, Austri. Ajo ligjëron në Institutin e Ndërtimit dhe Parimeve të Dizajnit në Universitetin Teknik të Graz-it, ku udhëheq studio dizajni dhe kurse të punimit të maketeve. Në studiot e saj të dizajnit fokusohet në tipologjitë e ekspozimit dhe edukimit, ndërsa kursi i maketimit për tre vite radhazi është përqendruar në monumentet jugosllave, duke hulumtuar gjuhën arkitektonike të përkujtimit në kontekstin modernist. Hulumtimi i Enës, si kandidate për doktoraturë në Institutin e Dizajnit dhe Tipologjisë së Ndërtimit në të njëjtin universitet, sillet rreth angazhimit me kornizën hapësinore të kujtesës kolektive, duke eksploruar krijimin, transmetimin dhe reflektimin e narrativave në raport me sfondet arkitektonike. E lindur në vitin 1990 në Sarajevë, Ena studioi arkitekturë në qytetin e saj të lindjes, si dhe në Barcelonë dhe Graz, duke u përqendruar në tipologjitë arkitektonike dhe kontributin e tyre në transmetimin ndërbrezor të kujtesës. Tema e saj e diplomës master në arkitekturën memoriale (Muzeu i Tunelit të Luftës në Sarajevë) fitoi Çmimin Austriak GAD 2018, ndërsa ajo u përzgjodh finaliste në Archiprix International Biennale 2019. Ajo merr pjesë aktive në diskursin publik mbi ndërlidhjen e arkitekturës dhe politikës, duke publikuar shpesh artikuj dhe duke marrë pjesë në aktivitete shkencore, së fundmi në Universitetin Princeton gjatë konferencës mbi Svetlana Kana Radević.
Dinko Jelečević është arkitekt me bazë gjithashtu në Graz, Austri. Ai punon si arkitekt në një zyrë, aktualisht duke zhvilluar një projekt që trajton hapësirat liminale të qytetit. Përveç kësaj, në praktikën e tij private, për pesë vitet e fundit ka krijuar vizualizime arkitektonike të hapësirave të papërfunduara për shumë zyra ndërkombëtare. I lindur në vitin 1990 në Zvornik, Bosnje dhe Hercegovinë, Dinko studioi arkitekturë në Sarajevë, Barcelonë dhe Graz, paralelisht duke punuar si artist vizual i pavarur. Tema e tij e diplomës master në Universitetin Teknik të Graz-it (Vraca Forum në Sarajevë) fitoi EU Mies Young Talent Award 2023, duke dëshmuar interesin e tij për qasjen e ripërdorimit adaptiv të strukturave ekzistuese.
Ena dhe Dinko kanë zhvilluar disa propozime dizajni për rivitalizimin e trashëgimisë industriale në Bosnje dhe Hercegovinë, duke fituar çmimin e njohur kombëtar Collegium Artisticum për “Debutuesit më të mirë” në vitin 2018 dhe për “Konceptin më të mirë të dizajnit” në vitin 2019. Projekti më i rëndësishëm ishte Qendra për Kulturë Bashkëkohore KRAK në qytetin veriperëndimor boshnjak të Bihać-it, ku një klub punëtorësh i periudhës jugosllave u transformua në një qendër kulturore, duke shërbyer si pikë e rëndësishme arti në Ballkan. Propozime të tjera të rëndësishme përfshijnë një park memorial në Sarajevë, ripërdorimin adaptiv të një kulle uji në Bihać, si dhe një qendër komunitare në Kirchbach.
Përveç projekteve të dizajnit, ata angazhohen edhe në hulumtim, duke u fokusuar kryesisht në vende dhe objekte specifike në të gjithë Ballkanin. Projekte të rëndësishme kërkimore përfshijnë kioskat K67, bllokun e banimit Alipašino Polje në Sarajevë, si dhe monumentet jugosllave.
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Alper Derinboğaz, Salon Alper Derinbogaz
Time and Place: 8PM, 7th of July, 2023, Kino Armata
Alper Derinbogaz is an architect and academic seeking communal relationships between the environment and spatial elements through scientific strategies. His experiments vary from installations to cultural projects, including the new City Museum nearing compilation. Derinboğaz leads one of “the best young architecture practices” Salon as listed by ArchDaily besides his studio in ITU.
Derinbogaz is a Fulbright Scholar and winner of the UCLA graduate award beside European “40 under 40”. His research has been exhibited in biennales and museums including the Koolhaas curated Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014 with his work Modalities of the Spontaneous, an in-depth study of the urban developments in relationship with geography. His projects won awards at international architecture competitions from Songdo Library in Korea to Kaunas Science Island in Lithuania. He was selected as one of the 40 top young architects in Europe and in Archdaily’s Best Young Practices. His works and research are recognized as “inventive” investigating the possibilities of the physical environment.
Salon, founded by Alper Derinbogaz, is an architectural practice focusing on continuities between humans, spaces, and the Earth. We produce designs and studies in the fields of architecture, art, interior design, and urbanism.
By focusing on research processes as the catalyst for an evolving engagement with the constructed world, we speculate on critical solutions for architecture.
Collaboration and openness are crucial to our work. We value ideas and criticism. The collaborative character of our design and research methods results in developing contemporary solutions for architectural, interior, and urban conditions. We value innovation, investigate contemporary programs, execute the latest fabrication technologies, and transform complex digital designs into buildings.
About the Lecture
Future Habitats
Geospaces traces relationships between topography, geology, genetics, ecologies, and construction technologies, arguing that a hybrid approach to making will shape our future habitats.
In this lecture, Derinboğaz will discuss the key ideas of his upcoming book “Geopaces” that raises the question, “What if we see buildings as iterations of nature rather than artificial objects?” This lecture will seek to find foundational ways to rethink and reshape the relationship between humans and our environment, looking at the emergence of natural forms, the history of human habitation, and the future of fabrication technologies.
Today, the established conception of architecture is based on a misguided hierarchy between nature and humans. While claiming to reinvent space in the past century, we have further reinforced the notion of buildings as stand-alone objects, raised above the environment. Deeper connections with the earth and nature through computational technologies can guide us in building a better future. Exceptional concepts can be generated from this in order to create architectural continuities. This pursuit of new tectonics evolves from the discovery of materialization and fabrication, which are at the core of our architectural research.
Through research of methods that aim to learn from on-site building, a bridge can be established between the over-classified phases of architectural production. Generating various methodologies specific to each project can lead to a radical streamlining of making architecture a part of the ecology again. As a manifestation of creating spaces in continuity with nature and earth, Alper Derinboğaz has been leading studios at the intersection of practice and research under the roof of ‘Geospaces’ since 2011.
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Alper Derinboğaz, Salon Alper Derinbogaz
Koha dhe Vendi: 7 korrik, 2023, ora 20:00 ne Kino Armata
Alper Derinboğaz është një arkitekt dhe akademik që kërkon marrëdhënie ndërvepruese midis mjedisit dhe elementeve hapësinore përmes strategjive shkencore. Eksperimentet e tij variojnë nga instalacionet tek projektet kulturore, duke përfshirë Muzeun e ri të Qytetit në afërsi të përfundimit. Derinboğaz drejton një nga “praktikat më të mira të reja të arkitekturës” të quajtura Salon siç renditet nga ArchDaily, krahas studios së tij në ITU.
Salon, i themeluar nga Alper Derinboğaz, është një studio e arkitekturës që fokusohet në vazhdimësi midis njerëzve, hapësirave dhe Tokës. Ne prodhojmë dizajne dhe studime në fushat e arkitekturës, artit, dizajnit të brendshëm dhe urbanizmit. Duke u fokusuar në proceset kërkimore si katalizator për një angazhim në zhvillim me botën e ndërtuar, ne spekulojmë për zgjidhje kritike për arkitekturën. Bashkëpunimi dhe një “mendje e hapur” janë vendimtare për punën tonë. Ne vlerësojmë idetë dhe kritikat. Karakteri bashkëpunues i metodave tona të projektimit dhe kërkimit rezulton në zhvillimin e zgjidhjeve bashkëkohore për kushtet arkitekturore, të brendshme dhe urbane. Ne vlerësojmë inovacionin, hetojmë programet bashkëkohore, ekzekutojmë teknologjitë më të fundit të fabrikimit dhe transformojmë dizajne komplekse dixhitale në ndërtesa.
Rreth Ligjerates
Future Habitats
Gjeohapësirat gjurmojnë marrëdhëniet midis topografisë, gjeologjisë, gjenetikës, ekologjive dhe teknologjive të ndërtimit, duke argumentuar se një qasje hibride ndaj krijimit do të formësojë habitatet tona të ardhshme.
Në këtë leksion, Derinboğaz do të diskutojë idetë kryesore të librit të tij të ardhshëm “Geospaces” që shtron pyetjen, “Po sikur të shohim ndërtesat si përsëritje të natyrës dhe jo objekte artificiale?” Ky leksion do të kërkojë të gjejë mënyra themelore për të rimenduar dhe riformuar marrëdhëniet midis njerëzve dhe mjedisit tonë, duke parë shfaqjen e formave natyrore, historinë e banimit njerëzor dhe të ardhmen e teknologjive të fabrikimit.
Sot, koncepti i vendosur i arkitekturës bazohet në një hierarki të gabuar midis natyrës dhe njerëzve. Me pretendimin për të rishpikur hapësirën në shekullin e kaluar, ne kemi përforcuar më tej nocionin e ndërtesave si objekte të pavarura, të ngritura mbi mjedisin. Lidhjet e thella me tokën dhe natyrën përmes teknologjive llogaritëse mund të na udhëheqin në ndërtimin e një të ardhmeje më të mirë. Nga kjo mund të krijohen koncepte të jashtëzakonshme për të krijuar vazhdimësi arkitekturore. Ky kërkim i tektonikës së re evoluon nga zbulimi i materializimit dhe fabrikimit, të cilat janë në thelb të kërkimit tonë arkitektonik.
Nëpërmjet kërkimit të metodave që synojnë të marrin mësim nga ndërtimi në terren, mund të vendoset një urë ndërmjet fazave të mbiklasifikuara të prodhimit arkitekturor. Gjenerimi i metodologjive të ndryshme specifike për çdo projekt mund të çojë në një riorganizim radikal për ta bërë arkitekturën përsëri pjesë të ekologjisë. Si një manifestim i krijimit të hapësirave në vazhdimësi me natyrën dhe tokën, Alper Derinboğaz ka udhëhequr studiot në kryqëzimin e praktikës dhe kërkimit nën çatinë e ‘Geospaces’ që nga viti 2011.
