Le Corbusier in Macedonia : the history of a myth

I guess it was 1997 when I for the first time heard that Le Corbusier, one of the most famous architects of the Century, was familiar with Macedonia and the 19 th Century architecture from her territory.At that time as a student at the Faculty of Architecture in Prishtina, following lessons about the Contemporary Architecture, the professor, speaking abou~Le Corbusier and his role in Modem architecture explains that "there are some rumors that Le Corbusier was familiar with the 19 th Century architecture from Macedonia and that a villa of Le Corbusier is analogue to a small gipsy house from Struga".A few years later I read Grabrijans's book The Macedonian House (1955) where he speaks about the analogy of a gipsy house from Struga and Le Corbusier's villa Carthago (1928).From other Macedonian architects and authors, I found out not only about the existence of the analogy between Le Corbusier's work and the profane architecture in Macedonia, but also their conclusions like the one Le Corbusier to have visited Macedonia looking for inspirations and that the source of his success was indeed nothing else but the 19 th Century architecture from the territory of Macedonia.In short, Macedonia was his secret source of inspiration.Therefore searching Le Corbusier's travels to Macedonia and studying his "secretly" usage of Macedonia as a source of his architecture will make the basis of my doctoral thesis at the University of Technology in Vienna.My interest going after Le Corbusier was to discover how an artistic soul like the one of Le Corbusier was provoked and decides to travel through Macedonia, how was he inspired from houses in Macedonia and at the very end, why Macedonia remains secret for all his life.Indeed, the initial purpose of my research about the role of Macedonia in Le Corbusier's life and work underwent beyond my expectations.I discovered Le Corbusier differently than it was described in Macedonia and instead of the importance of Macedonia in his work I discovered the opposite one, the importance of Le Corbusier for Macedonia and Macedonians.Through my research I own a great thanks to several institutions.First, I would like to thank the Fondation Le Corbusier in Paris, the director Madame Evelyne Trhin, Isabelle and Arnaud for their help.In particular I would like to thank also Madame Sylvie Bguelin from the Bibliothque de la Ville La Chaux-de-Fonds.In Ljubljana I would like to thank Mister Peter Krei

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