Slumbering Concrete - Season 2 Episode 4 A City That Was Too Modern
2023-11-30
50 minutes.
Season - Episode
3
Season 3 Nov 09, 2023
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3 - 1The Possibility of a Community Nov 09, 2023 -
3 - 2Between Iron Curtains Nov 16, 2023
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3 - 3The City of Workers and Architects Nov 23, 2023
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3 - 4Death to Fascism, Freedom to Others Nov 30, 2023
2
Season 2 Apr 28, 2019
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2 - 1 -
2 - 2Vehicles of Emancipation May 05, 2019 -
2 - 3Split, Where Plan Meets Chaos May 12, 2019 -
2 - 4A City That Was Too Modern May 19, 2019
1
Season 1 May 30, 2016
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1 - 1Socialism Meets Capitalism May 30, 2016 -
1 - 2Brief Encounters Along the Adriatic Highway May 31, 2016 -
1 - 3Mysterious Object in the Pine Forest Jun 01, 2016 -
1 - 4Megastructures Jun 02, 2016
Overview
After the catastrophic earthquake in 1963, Skopje became a global demonstration city of the future. UN hired international experts to participate in its reconstruction, the central figure being the Japanese avant-garde architect Kenzo Tange who designed the new center using the principles of the metabolism – its first application outside Japan. In its bid to become city of the future, Skopje anticipated some of the concepts that are only being realized today, but the ambitious idea was only partially realized. The bare brutalist architecture of unplastered concrete, at the same time archaic and futuristic, does not compromise, but tries to build a new world – but was it just a megalomaniacal project that was impossible to live in? In the episode, we also touch on the current Macedonian political nomenclature in their endeavor to rewrite history through construction – authentic modernism is replaced by faux Baroque and monumental memorials.
Year 2023
Studio HRT 1
Director Saša Ban
Crew
Popularity 0.2144
Language Croatian
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