Miroslav Grčev ( mk, Мирослав Грчев, ; born 1955) is a

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architect,

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, comics artist Tomislav Osmanli
„Razvojot na stripot vo Makedonija – sedum decenii stripovno tvoreštvo“
''Strip, zapis so čovečki lik'', „Mlad borec“, 1987; „Kultura“, Skopje 2002
Proekt Rastko - Makedonija
14. 5. 2010. and caricaturist. He is known for having designed the current

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of North Macedonia and a popular proposal for a new coat of arms of North Macedonia. Grčev was born in Skopje, Yugoslavia (now the capital of North Macedonia), and started to become interested in

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in the mid-1970s, when he worked on the design of

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. In 1979, Grčev graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Skopje. Today, he teaches as a professor of urban planning at the Faculty of Architecture in Skopje. Miroslav Grčev was mayor of central Skopje municipality "Centar" in 1996-2000 from Social Democratic Union of Macedonia. He is one of the most ardent critics of the identity policy of " antiquization" and of the associated urban plan

Skopje 2014 Skopje 2014 ( mk, Скопје 2014) was a project financed by the Macedonian government of the then-ruling nationalist party VMRO-DPMNE, with the official purpose of giving the capital Skopje a more classical appeal. The project, officially anno ...

, carried out by the Macedonian governments after 2006. In a project called 'Museum of Yugoslavia', Grčev openly claimed that the Macedonian state was invented within Yugoslavia at the end of the Second World War and there the Macedonian nation, Macedonian culture, Macedonian language and all Macedonian symbols were emancipated. At 26 December 2014, he promoted his collection of articles, published between 2006 and 2014, under the title „Името на злото“ ("The Name of the Evil").

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Miroslav Grčev, 'Signs and Ornaments', Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje
1955 births Living people Politicians from Skopje Social Democratic Union of Macedonia politicians Flag designers Album-cover and concert-poster artists Architects from Skopje Macedonian painters Artists from Skopje Macedonian comics artists Macedonian caricaturists 20th-century Macedonian artists 21st-century Macedonian artists {{NorthMacedonia-politician-stub

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