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Вредностите на традиционалната мијачка куќа од аспект на современието
THE VALUES OF THE TRADITIONAL MIAK HOUSE FROM CONTEMPORARY ASPECT

Author(s): Melanija Šerdenkovska
Subject(s): Cultural history, History of Art
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: Traditional house; Miak; Le Corbusier; Modern architecture; home; whiteness; balcony; veranda; terrace; pergola; external / internal spaces; architectural promenade; fluidity

Summary/Abstract: In this paper was analyzed the impact of Le Corbusierús travel to the Orient on the characteristics and values of its architecture. Through investigations of his own statements and investigations of statements of its analysts one can see that the most important value categories in its architecture are viewed and experienced through traditional house in the Balkans and Asia Minor. Since Le Corbusier was the most important promoter of the postulates for the modern architecture through the Athens Muniment, the conclusions of the impact analysis in his work, refer altogether to a modern architecture. This paper is part of a doctoral thesis Miak Residential Architecture - Origin, Development and Achievements, defended on the Faculty of Architecture, University „Ss Cyril and Methodius“, Skopje, June 2011. In the doctoral thesis by a complete and consistent analysis of building and building traditions of Miaks, but also through the analysis of their migration or as a migrant worker is proven main hypothesis - that Miak builders are essential promoters of the defined house by its program and model, in the southern part of the Balkan Peninsula and Asia Minor. The analysis of the origins of this house, which is followed by the source in the Neolithic period, brings a remarkably valuable conclusion, and it is that the basic type of object - a house with a porch and balcony is completely formed even during the ancient Macedonian state and through long periods of standstill and development reaches its culmination in the traditional buildings of the XIX century, which is another testimony to the continuity of the quality builder traditions in our region. Following its characteristics, development and impacts in relation to traditional architecture, this analysis is especially important, because shows us its substantial influence on contemporary architecture too.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 62
  • Page Range: 185-192
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Macedonian