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DRAGAN KRSTEVSKI
A: 35 Yorke Road, Croxly Green, Rickamnsworth, WD3 3DW, UK Vasil Gjorgov 29/1-50, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia T: +44 75 92807002 (UK) +389 70 686883 (RM) E: zgrada@gmail.com
PERSONAL INFO
EDUCATION
Nationality: Macedonian Date of birth: 7 May 1987 Gender: Male
2006 - 2013 BSc in Architecture / Architectral Engineering Graduated with distinction / Equivalent to 300 credits Faculty of Architecture - Skopje University “Ss. Cyril and Methodius”, Republic of Macedonia
LANGUAGES
2004 - 2006 International Baccalaureate Programme Diploma awarded “Josip Broz – Tito” High School, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Macedonian native English fluent Spanish intermediate German beginner Serbian fluent Croatian intermediate Bulgarian intermediate
COMPUTER SKILLS AutoCAD / AutoCAD Architecture Revit Architecture Microstation SketchUp Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Microsoft Office
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Make Architects 32 Cleveland Street, London W1T 4JY, UK July 2014 - present
www.makearchitects.com Partner / Architectural Assistant
Sept 2013 - March 2014 Gensler May - Dec 2012 Aldgate House, 33 Aldgate High Street, London EC3N 1AH, UK www.gensler.com
Architectural Assistant / Graduate Designer
- Sowwah Central Shopping Mall, Abu Dhabi - facade design, basement drawings - Toyota showroom prototype building, KSA - scheme design, design development - Confidential Retail Project in London with RPBW – concept design / feasibility stage - Heart of Doha - Phase 3, Doha - facade detail drawings - Level 39 / Media-Tech Hub, Canary Wharf, London - concept design
Aug - Sept 2011 Municipality of Quart de Poblet, Sector of Urbanism Pl. País Valencià, 1, 46930, Quart de Poblet, Valencia, Spain www.quartdepoblet.org
PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS 2015 - present American Institute of Architects 2013 - present AAM, Skopje Association of Architects of Macedonia 2009 - present First Archi Brigade, co-founder Architecture and urbanism in Skopje
Intern - Plaza dela Iglesia, Valencia - concept design
July - Sept 2010 Aug - Sept 2009 Aug - Sept 2008 Aug - Sept 2007
Sadeer Trading and Contracting Co. P.O. Box 23547, Safat 13096, Kuwait www.sadeercont.com
Junior Architect / Trainee
- Nuts’ kiosk for a new nuts’ company in Kuwait – concept design and branding
- Sadeer offices – concept design - Honda showroom in Kuwait - concept design / space planning - Armourcoat showroom within the company’s premises - interior design
2010 - 2013 IAESTE Macedonia FEIT & MFS, Karposh 2 bb, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia www.iaeste.org.mk
Design coordinator, City tour coordinator - Branding of IAESTE Macedonia
- Total design for IAESTE Annual Conference 2012
DRAGAN KRSTEVSKI
Architect zgrada@gmail.com
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W O R K S H O P S, C O N F E R E N C E S, P R E S E N T A T I O N S 2014 November
Architectural weekend trip to Skopje (Macedonia) for Make Architects, London Organiser / Architectural guide in Skopje
2014 November
Commercial buildings lecture, Technical High School “Zdravko Cvetkovski”, Skopje, Macedonia Visiting Lecturer
2014 September
Open House London, London’s largest annual festival of architecture and design Tour guide at 55 Baker street building
2014 May 2014 February
“Architectural reality in Skopje and London”, Koj se plasi od molkot los - event, House of the Army, Skopje, Macedonia Presenter “From modern past to fake present”, Presentation about the architecture in Skopje, Gensler, London, UK Presenter
2014 January
Balkan Reloaded, Panel discussions about the architecture in the cities on Balkans, Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna, Austria Speaker
2013 January
Skopje is growing, Panel discussion and presentation of online platform for the urban growth of the centre of Skopje, www.skopjeraste.mk, Skpopje, Macedonia Panellist
2012 July – December
Re-Thinking Town Square, six months workshop in the Gensler office for rethinking the modern town square and redeveloping an area in London into a new public space; London, UK Participant
2011 November
New Urban Typologies, workshop supported by the Swedish Institute, The Swedish Embassy in Skopje, the Faculty of Architecture – Skopje, the city of Skopje and the Municipality of Chair; Skopje, Macedonia Participant
2011 November
Architectural presentation - the UNESCO buildings’ complex in Paris at the “65 years of UNESCO” ceremony; “Josip Broz Tito” High School, Skopje, Macedonia Representative of the Faculty of Architecture – Skopje together with prof. Goce Adzi-Mitrevski, PhD
2011 April
Conference “Learning from modernisations”, part of the project Unfinished Modernisations; Cultural - informative centre, Skopje, Macedonia / www.unfinishedmodernisations.net Speaker
2011 January
Conference 10 FOR 10 – lectures about architecture; Faculty of Architecture, Ljubljana, Slovenia Speaker
2011 January
Conference “Imagine a City”, organised by First Archi Brigade with the support of Archis Interventions Lecturers: Vedran Mimica (director, Berlage Institute), Ole Bouman (director, Netherlands Architecture Institute), Kai Vockler (director, Archis Interventions), local professors and politicians; National and university library, Skopje, Macedonia http://en.nai.nl/platform/reports/item/_rp_kolom2-1_elementId/1_985420 Moderator / Organiser
2010 May
Workshop as part of the “International Architecture Forum Skopje 2010 – Skopje City of Solidarity”; Mala Stanica, Skopje, Macedonia Mentor
2010 April
Architecture Students’ Congress (ASK); Ljubljana, Slovenia Participant
2009 November
First Archi Brigade lecture and debate session about the current architectural situation in Skiopje, Kontekst Galerija, Belgrade, Serbia Speaker
2009 June
International Architectural Forum Skopje 2009: “Aftershock of the Post-modernism in Skopje”; Mala Stanica, Skopje, Macedonia Speaker / Representative of the First Archi Brigade / Participant at the workshop Urban [Re]Generation
2009 May
Reading the City: Urban Space and Memory”- International workshop at the Cultural Centre Tocka; Skopje, Macedonia Participant
2009 May
Creative competitive workshop for bicycle stands design for the city of Skopje, organised by the Coalition for sustainable development, Municipality Karposh and the City of Skopje; Skopje, Macedonia Participant / First prize awarded
DRAGAN KRSTEVSKI
Architect zgrada@gmail.com
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PROFESSIONAL COURSES 2012 September - October 2009 July
Drawing At Work, Architectural Sketching course with Trvor Flynn London Bauhaus Summer School 2009: Bauhaus city – Get on site! Dessau, Germany
PUBLICATIONS 2015 - present 2014 2011 2010 - present 2010 2010
2009 May
2014 June 2011 March 2010 March 2009 November 2009 July 2007 October
“I Love Journeys” , Travel blog, www.ilovejourneys.com Contributor “From modern future to fake history”, Article about the architecture in Skopje Gensler On Cities, www.gensleron.com/cities First Archi Brigade: The Utmost Incomplete Archive, Press to Exit / Idealist, Skopje, Macedonia Co-author Reper - internet magazine for culture, reper.net.mk Contributor / Architecture journalist “Porta 3” - architectural magazine, 7 May 2010, Skopje, Macedonia Text about the current architecture in Skopje The Disappearance of Gjuro Gjakovic in “Reading the City: Urban Space and Memory in Skopje Univerlag TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany http://books.google.be/books?id=sgfc1TosZGYC&source=gbs_navlinks_s Contributor
AWARDS Creative workshop for bicycle stands’ design for the city of Skopje Organised by the Coalition for sustainable development (COR) , Municipality of Karposh and the city of Skopje First place awarded
EXHIBITIONS STAV - Students’ Architectural Vision, Exhibition of graduation projects, Youth Cultural Centre, Skopje, Macedonia Main Organiser / Patrticipant Skopje 2803 #2, Exhibition of student projects for the second anniversary of the protest by First Archi Brigade on 28 March 2009 City square Macedonia, Skopje, Macedonia Skopje 2803, Exhibition of student projects for the anniversary of the protest by First Archi Brigade on 28 March 2009 City square Macedonia and Art Gallery “Press To Exit”, Skopje First Archi Brigade Exhibition, Lines [not] to be crossed - Open Space Zentrum für kunstprojekte, Vienna, Austria Reading the city: Urban space and memory, Group exhibition Prima Center, Berlin, Germany Lumix Awards - Photography Exhibition, Mala Stanica, Skopje, Macedonia
2006 March
Time and Space, Individual exhibition / Visual Arts final exam High School “Josip Broz Tito”, Skopje, Macedonia
2005
High School Art Project – Group exhibition of paintings
DRAGAN KRSTEVSKI
Architect zgrada@gmail.com
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OTHER EXPERIENCE 2010 - present May 2010
Architectural tour guide for modern and current architecture in Skopje, Macedonia IAESTE Annual Conference 2012 ( 21 – 27 January 2012), www.ac.iaeste.org ; www.iaeste.org.mk, Hotel Continental, Skopje, Macedonia; Organiser and coordinator for design and Skopje city tour
2009 - 2010
President of the year 4, Faculty of Architecture - Skopje
2009 - 2013
IAESTE Macedonia (“The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience”); Member, Coordinator of Seminar for Training and Motivation, Coordinator of the Design Team
2008 - present
“UNESCO – Zivite jazici prozorec kon svetot”, Skopje, Macedonia; Member
May 2008
Ceremony “Three years memory of Kenzo Tange’” at “Goce Delcev” Elementary School, organised by UNESCO, Skopje; Member of the organisation team
May 2006
Ceremony “One year memory of Kenzo Tange” at Josip Broz – Tito” High School, organised by UNESCO, Skopje; Participant
2004 - 2006 December 2005 February 2005 2005 - 2006 December 2004 2004 - 2006
“EU lectures and Social Skills” organised by the NGO Youth Educational Forum; Participant MMUN Annual Conference, Skopje, Macedonia; Delegate / Administrator of the Public Relation team UNISUN Annual Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Delegate “Josip Broz – Tito” High School MMUN club, Skopje, Macedonia; President and Debate instructor MMUN Annual Conference, Skopje, Macedonia; Delegate Macedonian Model United Nations (MMUN); Member
ACTIVITIES May 2010 March 2010 January - May 2009 May 2006
Photography competition “Urban Space”, Municipality of Karposh, Skopje, Macedonia Participant Design competition for innovative piece of furniture organised by the Skopje Furniture Fair, Skopje, Macedonia Participant Survey of the Old Turkish Bazaar in Skopje, technical documentation, analysis of the condition of the buildings High School Graduation thesis – Extended Essay: “The Master Plan by Kenzo Tange for Reconstruction of the Skopje City Centre after the earthquake in 1963”
References are available on request