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    The Architecture of The Post-Earthquake Renewal of Skopje
    (Hellenic Institute of Architecture, 2019)
    Ivanovska Deskova, Ana
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    Deskov, Vladimir
    On July 26th Skopje suffered a catastrophic earthquake; more than 1.000 victims were identified, over 3.300 people were injured, while approximately 70-80% of the total built stock was either destroyed or damaged beyond repair. The city was literally reduced to rubble. Vastly devastated, the city of Skopje was built anew under the patronage of the United Nations and with the support from more than 80 countries worldwide. As Yugoslavia was one of the leaders on the non-aligned movement, help started to “pour” into Skopje both from the East and the West. In the middle of the Cold War, at a time when the polarization between the two conflicting political blocks was at its peak, Skopje’s post-earthquake renewal process defined solidarity and cooperation as its leading principal. Soon after the earthquake, the federal government asked the United Nations for assistance; on the one hand, it was obvious that the scope and complexity of the whole endeavor was far beyond the capacities of the local planers and architects. On the other hand, it was a huge opportunity to bring together international experts (both from the East and the West) and envision a new “city for the future”.
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    Structure as a Symbol: Modernist High Rises in Skopje
    (MASE - Macedonian Association of Structural Engineers, 2019)
    Ivanovska Deskova, Ana
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    Deskov, Vladimir
    There are often periods in the development of the cities, which carry certain energy released in the space in form of waves. Over time, the traces of these cycles slowly fall into oblivion until another wave brings some of them to the surface again. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the renewed visibility of one of the forgotten and thematically least examined architectural layers of Skopje - the buildings that develop in height (high-rises, towers) – product of one of the dominant models of urbanization and development of the European cities in the second half of the 20th century. Focusing on the period of highest intensity of building, from the origins in the 1950s, all the way to the late 1980s, this work aims to perform a comprehensive study of the architecture of the “vertical city”, the conditions under which it was created, the main defining features, the qualities and values it possesses. The investigation relies upon a large research sample, encompassing more than 50 high-rise buildings dispersed on the territory of Skopje. In terms of urban layout, they form various configurations, showing different relationship of the building(s) and the immediate surrounding. In terms of use – housing, collective housing, administrative and industrial buildings were taken into consideration. In terms of architectural expression, they represent a rich selection regarding the simplicity/complexity of their spatial and volumetric structure, the architectural typology, the disaggregation of the plan, the materiality and the details applied.
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    Challenging Neglect and Indifference: The Case of Skopje
    (TU Delft / Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, 2020)
    Ivanovska Deskova, Ana
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    Deskov, Vladimir
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    In 1963, Skopje suffered catastrophic earthquake that destroyed 75-80% of its built fund. The aftermath of the earthquake propelled unprecedented international solidarity. The process led by UN was high in ambition – to promote Skopje as an exemplary global city. The previously unknown, peripheral city became field of global cooperation and laboratory for testing latest urban and architectural paradigms. The process that in its highest intensity lasted less than 20 years, resulted with the most powerful segment of Skopje’s recent architectural history. After the dissolution of Yugoslavia, Skopje entered long and highly uncertain process of “transition”. Along with other challenges, linked to political, economic, social and cultural changes, this process launched dramatic and controversial spatial transformations. Already aged, to certain extent obsolete, systematically neglected, threatened with brutal alteration of their authentic appearance, many exemplary buildings of Skopje post-earthquake renewal could be considered “heritage in danger”. This paper intends to demonstrate how something that usually firmly belongs in the realm of professional preservation could become an act of individual “architectural activism”. By presenting several initiatives, we would like to show how one can act when the social and aesthetic values of the heritage are under attack. With a strong belief that the buildings are significant enough to be considered a heritage, we conducted “experimental preservation” - an extensive process of collecting archival material, research as a base for future valorisation, series of public presentations, exhibitions and publications intended to initiate discussion within the profession itself as well to raise the public awareness about the values of Skopje’s 20th Century Heritage.
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    Manoeuvre
    (Department of Architecture and Arts of the Iuav University of Venice, Italy, 2021-07-19)
    Ivanovska Deskova, Ana
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    Deskov, Vladimir
    Following the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, the early 1990s brought turbulent dissolution of the socialist world, to which Republic of Macedonia belonged as part of the Yugoslav Federation. Since its independence in 1991, along with challenges related to the political, economic and social restructuring, the post-socialist transition triggered dynamic spatial transformation, particularly in the cities. The capital, Skopje, like many other post-socialist cities found itself developing in an interregnum – the ‘old’ was dying and the ‘new’ was unable to be born.
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    Constructing the City of Solidarity: Alfred Roth’s Elementary School in Skopje
    (Department of Architecture – Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, 2020-10-29)
    Ivanovska Deskova, Ana
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    Deskov, Vladimir
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    In 1963, Skopje suffered an earthquake of catastrophic proportions that left the city reduced to rubble. What followed was a case of immense international solidarity. For more than a decade, aid came in abundance from both sides of the Iron Curtain. In a short but intense period of approximately 15 years, the city underwent a process of reconstruction that entirely changed its appearance and the quality of living. In this context, with a strong belief in the importance of high-quality modern education, the Swiss government donated the design, financed the construction and equipped an exemplary school building, designed by Alfred Roth and named after the renowned Swiss pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi.
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    Challenging Disregard: The Case of the Telecommunication Center in Skopje
    ("Ion Mincu" University Press, Bucharest, 2019)
    Ivanovska Deskova, Ana
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    Deskov, Vladimir
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    In 1963, Skopje suffered a catastrophic earthquake that left the city reduced to rubble. The post-earthquake renewal led by the UN propelled unprecedented international solidarity. Previously unknown, this peripheral city became a field of global cooperation and a laboratory for testing the latest urban and architectural paradigms. The process that, at its highest intensity, lasted less than 20 years resulted in the most powerful segment of Skopje’s recent architectural history. During the past decades, Skopje underwent another transformation. The changes in the political, economic and cultural context led towards a generalized neglect of the recent architectural heritage, on the one hand, and on the other hand, towards a process of dramatic spatial remodeling. By focusing on the example of the iconic Telecommunication Center designed by architect Janko Konstantinov, this paper intends to show how architectural preservation can sometimes assume the form of individual activism. Harboring an obsolete program and suffering systematical neglect, the Telecommunication Center can definitely be ascribed to the category of endangered heritage. This begs the question of how one can act when the social and aesthetic values of heritage are under attack; when the institutions are not only ignorant, but are at times in favor of this violent erasure of personal and collective history? How to demonstrate that a building is significant enough to be considered heritage? In a context that is strongly politically and ideologically driven, through a process of “experimental preservation,” the authors of this paper used the Telecommunication Center as a trigger for the larger revaluation process of modernist heritage.