Martin Guleski

Martin Guleski
Born	(1945-03-06) March 6, 1945 Strumica, SFR Yugoslavia (now North Macedonia)
Nationality	Macedonian
Occupation	Architect
Awards	Great Annual Award for Architecture by the AAM (2000) Grand Prix at BIMAS (2002)
Buildings	Nova International School Skopje

Martin Guleski (born 6 March 1945) is a Macedonian architect and former university professor at the Faculty of Architecture - Skopje at the University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius". Guleski studied at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade, Serbia. Since 1991, he has been a permanent collaborator at the design firm "Atelier Ajvar" in Skopje. In his rich professional career, he has authored more than 100 projects and 20 realizations.

He was awarded the Great Annual Award for Architecture by the AAM in 2000 and the Grand Prix at BIMAS in 2002.

Biography

Architect Martin Guleski was born in Strumica in 1945 and completed his primary and secondary education in Skopje. His extracurricular activities in model-making sections within the primary school and the Karposh Pioneer Home were an essential part of his additional education. His first encounter with architectural structures, through the creation of their models, occurred in the studio of three architects who, besides their professional activities, informally taught several primary school students the skill of making paper models.

Architect Guleski graduated in 1969 from the Faculty of Architecture at the Polytechnic Institute in Lviv, Ukraine, with a thesis on "A Settlement for 1000 Families". His student stay at the Moscow Architectural Institute, lasting one academic year, broadened and deepened his knowledge of the architectural conditions during the period of Soviet avant-garde, forming a basis for further refinement of his education.

Career

NOVA High School by Guleski

Martin Guleski began his design career immediately after graduation, at the design office Pelagonia Project under the GP "Pelagonia" in Skopje. In 1972, he was appointed as an assistant at the Faculty of Architecture - Skopje in the Department of Public Building Design. He obtained his master's degree from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade, Serbia in 1986 with a thesis on "Planning Residential Space from the Perspective of Demographic Changes and Sociological Needs in a Certain Population Structure", and in 1991 he defended his doctoral dissertation on "The Problem of Flexibility in the Space of Multifunctional Cultural Buildings" at the Faculty of Architecture in Skopje, where he was appointed as an assistant professor in 1992. His close collaboration on every level and in all circumstances with professors Boris Chipan, Slavko Brezoski, Zivko Popovski, and Mihajlo Volkanov over more than three decades represented a constant growth and enhancement of his personal professional profile. Since 1991, Martin Guleski has been a permanent collaborator in the Design Office "Atelier Ajvar" in Skopje. His work with the Ajvar group represents further professional development, serving as a foundation for theoretical lessons in parallel with his pedagogical work, and conversely, verifying the educational material in practical work. The work in the Ajvar group, later in Atelier Ajvar, has particular significance in his professional work, especially the two solo exhibitions 10 and 25 years of architecture within the biennial events of the Association of Architects of Macedonia (AAM) in the premises of the National Gallery Daut Pasha Hammam and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje.

Further Reading

• Guleski, Martin. "Martin Guleski: Architect: Traces of Thinking, Shaping, Doing, Teaching, Living ... Architecture". Skopje: Association of Architects of Macedonia, 2015. ISBN 978-9989-615-09-2.
• Konstantinovski, Georgi. "The Builders in Macedonia: XVII - XX Century, Book Two". I. P. Tabernakul. Skopje, 2004. ISBN 9989-937-74-5.