Carlo Scarpa and the search for gravity

Schultz, A.

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“…Through an abstract representation of the individual layers, the building achieves a system of references that are not only limited to form, program, and structure. An important notice is that the building gained meaning that is a reminiscence of an architectural theme (Schultz 2007). Today, these aspects lose their meaning as the building slowly decays, and it is much more difficult to understand them.…”

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The divergent legacies of the Yugoslav architectural heritage: The afterlives of “mesna zaednica” in Taftalidže, Skopje

Brsakoska,

Spasevska,

Daskalov

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Journal of Nationalism, Memory &Amp; Language Politics

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Ongoing urban developments and contemporary social challenges increase the need for different typologies of new urban and architectural concepts, where the issue of built heritage, specifically in the case of Skopje, has become a vast problem. With the decomposition of the former Yugoslavia states in the 1990s, each of these new states inherited a significant amount of built heritage, including monuments, buildings, landscapes, and infrastructure, constructed according to the prevailing socialist urban-planning and architectural doctrines, and directed within and towards the immediate contexts of the Yugoslav community. Most of this inherited architecture vanished across the ex-Yugoslav space, while a large part of it is still left in a state of limbo. This article aims to show the socialist built heritage's adaptation, or transformation, into new urban scenarios, using the case of Skopje to reveal more about the relationship between the heritage and the local inhabitants. It will closely examine the socialist architecture and its relation with the local memory communities, or the locals’ memories. More precisely, we will focus on one unique construct that has slowly vanished in the modern-day living: the notion of mesna zaednica. In focusing on this notion in the urban district of Taftalidže, Skopje, we will discuss the means of transposing socialist communal features into the new, post-socialist architectural rhetoric and way of life, as well as engage with various discourses about urban heritage emerging in the urban context. Finally, we will argue in favor of several heritage and urban development theses, which can be applied to the particular case study. The article is part of an ongoing research project that presents its results in English for the first time.

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The divergent legacies of the Yugoslav architectural heritage: The afterlives of “mesna zaednica” in Taftalidže, Skopje

Brsakoska,

Spasevska,

Daskalov

et al. 2023

Journal of Nationalism, Memory &Amp; Language Politics

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“…members of a society on the basis of socially relevant characteristics that influence the behavior of people toward each other" (Krämer in Schultz, 2010). Geology uses the term stratification to analyze and interpret the arrangement of different materials (Schultz, 2010). In most contexts, the layers below are treated as older, and those above as younger layers (Ule in Schultz, 2010).…”

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“…Geology uses the term stratification to analyze and interpret the arrangement of different materials (Schultz, 2010). In most contexts, the layers below are treated as older, and those above as younger layers (Ule in Schultz, 2010). The order and composition of the layers contains information related to the development of certain geological formations.…”

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“…The order and composition of the layers contains information related to the development of certain geological formations. "The chronological component of the succession of sedimentary deposits and the process of a mechanical change of this stratification is an essential component of the definition" (Schultz, 2010). Archeology also highlights the chronological succession of each layer (of culture, society, settlement) in relation to the other layers.…”

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“…In the context of architecture, it is possible to speak about formal, representational, material, spatial, graphic, polychrome, tectonic, programmatic, narrative, conceptual and other forms of stratification. Spatial stratification, for example, refers to the succession of spatial sequences (Schultz, 2010). (For example, if we look at the dining room through the door and if the window with the flowers is behind the dining space, the space in between the wall with the door and wall with the window with flowers is the first layer, the space containing the window with the flowers is the second layer, and the landscape in the garden that can be seen through the window is the third layer.…”

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The term stratification 2 is etymologically derived from the Latin words stratum (layer or cover) and ficere (make), which gives us stratum + ficere meaning to cover with a layer. "In the figurative sense, a layer needs a frame, a base material, or an additional layer in order to carry out the function of 'cover'" (Schultz, 2010). In sociology the term "stratification is used to characterize a structure of inequality where (a) individuals occupy differentiated structural positions and (b) the positions are situated in layers (or strata) that are ranked hierarchically according to broadly recognized standards" (Durlauf and Blume, 2008). In political science, the concept of stratification refers to the "vertical structuring of the

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Carlo Scarpa and the search for gravity

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The divergent legacies of the Yugoslav architectural heritage: The afterlives of “mesna zaednica” in Taftalidže, Skopje

The divergent legacies of the Yugoslav architectural heritage: The afterlives of “mesna zaednica” in Taftalidže, Skopje

De- and re-stratification of the urban tissue: Peter Eisenman’s cities of Artificial Excavation projects

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