{"id":520,"date":"2012-09-13T05:20:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T05:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/omnibus-lab.com\/blog\/?p=520"},"modified":"2013-12-05T05:46:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T05:46:30","slug":"skopje-visibility-of-the-master-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omnibus-lab.com\/blog\/skopje-visibility-of-the-master-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Skopje, Visibility of the Master Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8221; Architect and Photographer Lorenz B\u00fcrgi and architect Charlotte Malterre-Barthes of the urban research platform OMNIBUS take us to Skopje, Macedonia, where they focus on the traces of the partially realized 1963 Master Plan proposed by Kenzo Tange after the destruction of the city by a 6.1 earthquake.&#8221; in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mascontext.com\/issues\/15-visibility-fall-12\/i-know-ive-seen-the-master-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\"> MAS-CONTEXT &#8216;VISIBILITY&#8217;. <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI know I\u2019ve seen the Master Plan\u201d<br \/>\nDrugstore &amp; Tom Yorke -El President (1998)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The fascination exerted by post-communist places never seems to wear off. In the perspective of recently published photographic works such as Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chaubin\u2019s <em>Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed<\/em>, Roman Bezjak\u2019s <em>Socialist Modernism<\/em> and Jan Kempenaers\u2018s <em>Spomeniks<\/em>, or the latest collaborative book of Armin Linke and Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss <em>Socialist Architecture: The Vanishing Act<\/em>, the photographic work of Lorenz B\u00fcrgi on Skopje could, at first glance, illustrate further and not more than- the romantic attraction of decaying post-communist concrete architecture. But Skopje, capital of the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia, bears a different past than other cities behind the Iron Gate and a particular relation to architectural and urban utopias. (&#8230;) &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a follow-up to a long-lasting interest, OMNIBUS goes back <a title=\"OUTCOMES: Skopje Workshop\" href=\"https:\/\/omnibus-lab.com\/blog\/?p=290\" target=\"_blank\">again<\/a> and <a title=\"\u201cSkopje, or How Context Fucked Concepts and Vice Versa\u201d: Publication in SAN ROCCO\" href=\"https:\/\/omnibus-lab.com\/blog\/?p=485\" target=\"_blank\">again<\/a> to Skopje, fascinating city where urban design and planning meets informality, heritage and political issues in a most magnifying way. <a href=\"https:\/\/omnibus-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MAS_Skopje.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-521\" title=\"MAS_Skopje\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/omnibus-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MAS_Skopje-785x563.png\" width=\"785\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/omnibus-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MAS_Skopje-785x563.png 785w, https:\/\/omnibus-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MAS_Skopje-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/omnibus-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MAS_Skopje.png 842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 785px) 100vw, 785px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221; Architect and Photographer Lorenz B\u00fcrgi and architect Charlotte Malterre-Barthes of the urban research platform OMNIBUS take us to Skopje, Macedonia, where they focus on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[48,49,50,15,23],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publication","tag-essay","tag-lorenz-burgi","tag-photography","tag-skopje","tag-urban-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omnibus-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omnibus-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omnibus-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnibus-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnibus-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/omnibus-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"https:\/\/omnibus-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnibus-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omnibus-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnibus-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnibus-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}