Toward a Local Tradition: Modern Architecture in Macedonia

Abstract

This paper investigates the local building tradition in Macedonia. The domain of the research occurs to be the 19th Century houses build in different cities within the state. The research shows that these houses build by the anonymous master have enormous functional, spatial and dwelling qualities. However, after the W.W.II, young architects began to practice Modernism in Macedonia. At the very begin they were dealing with the so-called the white phase of Modern architecture. But, as the time passes by, around the late ’60 and the begin of the ’70, the same architects in their works began to involve and modify local (traditional) elements from houses that were build a Century earlier, now mostly destroyed to make a place for modern homes. The study reveals ideas, details and works mostly by the local architects that would ‘transform’ the ‘old’ house to a modern way of making architecture.