99FILES. Balkan Brutalism #Skopje

In the last years a renewed interest on the topic of brutalist architecture has emerged, becoming an important reflection on the intense architectural production that has built the modernity of the cities in Yugoslavia. This volume is part of this debate, starting with a specific contribution on the city of Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, taken as a case study of a research that is divided into two parts: ATLAS OPERANTE and 99FILES Balcan Brutalism. The ATLAS is configured as a first organic study of 15 architectures built in Skopje after the earthquake, which reveals a heritage of ideas and experiments capable of expressing the urban dimension and identity of the new city, reconstructed on the Plan (1965) by Kenzo Tange . The second part of the book is dedicated to the 99FILES – research, call, exhibition - as an interdisciplinary observatory, a complex and innovative research that develops different points of observation of the Brutalism heritage in the Balkan area. It is a multidisciplinary project that brings together the work of 109 international architects. The materials have been exposed in an international exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje in June 2018, and have merged into a Digital Archive - available at the link http://landscapeinprogress.unirc.it/99files-archive/ - an interactive platform that allows consultation and cross-reading of the materials according to the different key words [TAG].