In the history of building, Georgi Konstantinovski is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Georgi Konstantinovski as Macedonian architect (1930–2020).
Georgi Konstantinovski was born at Serbia in 1930. His recorded nationality is North Macedonia. He trained at Yale University and Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
He is recorded as architect, writer and university teacher.
His work is associated with brutalist architecture.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
That the work was built in North Macedonia shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Georgi Konstantinovski died in 2020, aged 90. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Movement: brutalist architecture
- Trained at Yale University and Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje
