OHRID'S ANCIENT URBAN ARCHITECTURE BY BORIS ČIPAN AND DUŠAN GRABRIJAN

The “çardak” is the core room of any Macedonian house, similar to the living room for Le Corbusier. Based on the work of Dušan Grabrijan on the Macedonian house type and on the work of Boris Čipan on the Ohrid's housing architecture, the current study explores the peculiarity of the so-called Ohrid's ancient urban architecture. By carrying out an analysis of the above-mentioned studies, this paper analyzes the origins, the differences, the program, the location, the cultural context, the organization, the built-in furniture, the technological construction, the anthropological expressions, and the main architectural elements of Ohrid's houses. This written provides a new look at Ohrid's ancient urban architecture, by trying to linking the most import-ant studies led by modern architects on this topic. Studies that revealed the fundamental aspect of this house type: its intrinsic modernity.