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November 15, 2010
  • Cities between dream and reality
    On 1 October, a group of twenty artists, architects, designers and observers embarked on the airplane to Skopje. The capital of the Republic of Macedonia was to be the first of the nine cities visited during the 17-day study trip ‘What’s Up, What’s Down. Cultural Catalysts in Urban Spaces’ organised by the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture. All cities on the itinerary are – for various reasons – reinventing themselves. Here is the first part of my travelogue: about how authorities acquire a new (cultural) image for their city.
    ArchiNed.nl – news

    Back in 1963, then still a part of Tito’s Yu­go­s­la­via, Skopje was hit by a se­vere ear­t­h­quake, and as a re­sult twenty per­cent of all buil­dings were re­du­ced to rub­ble. The in­ter­na­tio­nal com­mu­nity rus­hed to the res­cue and Ja­pa­n…

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