City Creative Network (CCN) Skopje together with Dubravka Sekulić and Kosovo Architecture Foundation (KAF) Prishtina organized and hosted this semester’s seminar week with the chair of Prof. Philip Ursprung (gta/ETH Zurich) titled: Debalkanize! A journey to Macedonia & Kosovo. Together with a group of 40 architecture students, artists and architectural historians we embarked on a 5 day journey that familiarized the Swiss to the Balkans, and challenged the preconceived stereotypes about this region along the way. We met the bustling, young, and fresh Prishtina; discovered the story of the 70’s monuments in Veles, Kruševo and Kavadarci; visited the wine region Tikveš and the textile region Štip; and finally discovered the incredibly international and cosmopolitan spirit of the post earthquake Skopje. Its architectural jewels of the 60’s and 70’s are still standing for an open society with a strong belief in progress and cultural internationalism. We met the local architecture heroes, artists, activists, students, citizens and even joined some of their causes. We enjoyed the incredible food, wine and rakia and…
We discovered our region anew through your foreign experience and engaging discussions. It was an incredibly inspiring for us and our work and we thank you sincerely for this. We look forward to collaborate with you again.
Until very soon,
Damjan Kokalevski
Milan Dinevski
CCN
Experience
Photo: Tim Klauser; Pascal Ryser; CCN
The Reader
Impresum
http://www.ursprung.arch.ethz.ch/seminarwochen
organization: Professor Philip Ursprung
booklet: Dubravka Sekulić, Damjan Kokalevski, Itamar Bergfreund, Tim Klauser, Sabine Sarwa, Berit Seidel, Michael Stunzi, Milan Dinevski and Team Ursprung
local host: City Creative Network (CCN) Skopje; Kosovo Architecture Foundation (KAF) Prishtina
Thanks to Charlotte Malterre Barthes - Chair of Prof. Marc Angelil, for the support with materials
February 2015
ETHB Zurich/Department of Architecture/
Institute for History and Theory of Architecture/
Professor for History of Art and Architecture Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Photo: CCN
Event
16 - 21 March 2015
Prishtina, Macedonia and Skopje
Debalkanize! is a seminar trip hosting a group of 40 professors, researchers and students from ETH Zurich, organized by Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung, the Chair for the History of Art and Architecture from ETH Zurich together with Damjan Kokalevski and Milan Dinevski from City Creative Network (CCN) Skopje and Bekim Ramku from Kosovo Architecture Foundation (KAF) Prishtina.
Poster
Introduction
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