This work reflects an architectural landmark during the ‘90s in the University campus of Prishtina. An unfinished and abandoned Orthodox Church whose construction started in 1992 in the University Campus of Prishtina and was interrupted by the war in 1999. Moreover, the inauguration of the unfinished Church occurred during the war. During the ‘90s, Kosovo was under Slobodan Milošević’s regime for a decade, known as an era of resistance.
Today 23 years after the inauguration, this building has been neither finished nor destroyed. The University of Pristina and the Serbian Orthodox Church have been embroiled in a contentious legal affiliation dispute for years, while the future of this abandoned building remains unclear.
The political issues and negative connotations attached to this unfinished structure made me reluctant to treat it as a monument; instead, I chose to view it as a political ruin, given the building’s historical and political significance over the past three decades. This master thesis focuses on the solution to this problem by using architecture as a tool. Finding a solution to preserve and treat the Church as an object of observation in order to promote mutual understanding and peaceful reflection between two nations in order to address this issue.
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