bio / CV

Mila Gavrilovska is a photographer and Master’s degree student at the Faculty of Architecture in Skopje. Her practice focuses on architectural photography, with a particular emphasis on modernist architecture and its entanglement with social, political, and historical processes. Working at the intersection of visual documentation and architectural research, she examines how buildings and urban environments are shaped by ideology, power, and everyday use, and how they continue to evolve over time.

Her work has been presented through exhibitions, research platforms, and documentation projects. Most recently, she participated in the Venice Biennale of Architecture as part of the Macedonian Pavilion. In 2024, she also took part in the exhibition The Gift at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, contributing a photographic series from Skopje that documents the housing barracks and the Universal Hall—two projects directly linked to the post-earthquake reconstruction of Skopje and international solidarity.

Previously, she completed an extensive documentation project focused on Skopje’s modernist architectural heritage, published on Architectuul. As part of this research, she photographed more than 50 buildings, contributing to the visibility, critical understanding, and preservation of an important body of architecture that is often overlooked. Through her combined background in architecture and photography, her work foregrounds storytelling as a method, using images to examine how architectural histories are constructed, remembered, and negotiated within the contemporary city.