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BUSINESS DESIGN

Lidija Georgieva

The author is a designer,
Associate Professor

Participation of Macedonia in the Venice Architecture Biennale
Interview with Stojan Pavleski, an architect in Stone Design

REPORTING FROM THE FRONT

The fifteenth international architectural architects from Skopje, known to the public
exhibition this year takes place in Venice, as Stone Design. Ivanka Apostolova is the
from May 28 until November 27. Organized commissioner of the exhibition, Stojan
by the Venice Biennale, curated by Alejandro Pavleski is the curator, and the author at
Aravena, this year’s theme is Reporting the same time, together with the coauthors
from the Front. Our representatives from Ivan Simeonov, Gjorgi Radovanovic, and
the project No Man’s land included four Ljupcho Tasevski.

A formation of four architects together our project. Here we have participated in
named Stone Design. Since when do you ex- “BIMAS” (Macedonian Architecture Bien-
ist? nale), we also work on international compe-
titions, this time we decided to try with the
“Stone Design” exists as a company for Venice Biennale.
17 years. The four of us are architects, and I
am also an artist. In the beginning we were The theme this year belongs to Alejandro
focused on interior design, because realisti- Aravena, Reporting from the Front. It is a
cally speaking, we were younger, people did matter of a wider theme which I found re-
not have the trust to give us a responsibility ally interesting to work on, because one
to design apartment buildings. Now we have of the stories was the relation between
reached a mature stage, so in the past 6 to 7 the public and the private sphere in global
years we started to get such assignments as sense. We undertook the challenge to work
well. So far we have built several facilities, 5 on the theme ‘migrations’, however not the
to 6 apartment buildings, the AEC tower is ones about Syria which are current at the
our project (the telecommunications tower moment, rather the colonization of Amer-
on Vodno), the Universal Hall – the design ica, the fall of the Berlin wall, economic
that is known as the egg to the public is also migrations, mental, forced, student migra-
tions, etc. Each one of us reviewed how we

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