Kenzo Tange

"The Future as a Project," at the Benaki Museum's Pireos Street annex, explores the contribution of celebrated Greek architect Constantinos Doxiadis (1913-1975) in the effort to rebuild a rebrand Skopje after the capital of what is now the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia was razed by an earthquake in 1963.

The architecture that emerged during this period—from International Style skyscrapers to Brutalist "social condensers"—is a manifestation of the radical pluralism, hybridity, and idealism that characterized the Yugoslav state itself.

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The earthquake that struck the Macedonian capital of Skopje at 5.17am on July 26, 1963 - while most of its inhabitants were still sleeping - killed over 1,000 people and left more than half of the city's 200,000 residents homeless.

Entire families perished under collapsed buildings while the survivors woke to find their previously prosperous city a scene of devastation.