CURRICULUM VITAE

Name:Dr.Lazar SUMANOV,
Grad.eng.architect-Advisor Conservator.
Employed by Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments-RZZSK,
Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

Addresses:
Office: -Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments-RZZSK;
Evlija Celebia b.b. P.O.Box 225 91.000-Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
tel. + 389 91 116 465;
fax. + + 389 91 227 240;
email: rzsindok@lotus.mpt.com.mk

Macedonia ICOMOS, E.Celebia bb;
P.O.Box 816, 91000_
Skopje, Macedonia
tel./fax ++ 389 91 122 079;
e-mail: icomosmk@nic.mpt.com.mk

Home: P.O.Box 719, Georgi Dimitrov 66/1-5; 91.000
Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
tel. + 389 91 200 901

Date and place of birth: 19 March 1940, Skopje, Macedonia

Marital Status: Married, two children

Education:
-Eng. Architect-Diploma (1971)- Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University St. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia
-Grad.eng.architect - Diploma (1978)-Faculty of Architecture, University St. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia
- Ph.D. – The University of York, UK, Centre for Conservation,(1999)

Present positions:
Deputy Director and Head of Department at RZZSK
President of the Macedonian National Committee of ICOMOS

Brief summary of activities:

1997 Deputy Director and Head of Department at RZZSK since 1990

-Elected member of ICROM Council for the period 1997-2001, on Twentieth General Assembly of -ICCROM 10 - 12 December 1997, Rome, Italy.

1997 -Chairman of the Organizing Committee of Regional Workshop on Integrating Cultural Heritage into National Disaster Preparedness Planning-Skopje/Ohrid 13-17 September 1997

-and now Advisor Conservator at RZZSK

1995 -Till 1996 Principal investigator of Research project financed by UNESCO: Development of a Methodology in order to create a Data Bank for Structures of Cultural Heritage in Seismic Prone Regions

1995 -and now Nominated Member of the Macedonian National Commission for UNESCO

1994 and now First President of the Macedonian National Committee of ICOMOS

1993 and now Visiting Lecturer at Centre for Conservation Studies, IoAAS, The University of York, UK

1993 and now Visiting Lecturer at Ecole D'Architecture, University of Marseille, France

1991 Member of the Evaluation Expert Group and Lecturer on the Session 91-15 years after Friuli Earthquake 1976 Udine-Italy, European Summer University under Council of Europe

1990 till 1994 - Principal investigator and supervisor of the Scientific Research project: Seismic Strengthening, Conservation and Restoration of Byzantine Churches (9th-14th century) in Macedonia.Project executed by RZZSK, IZIIS and the Getty Conservation Institute, USA, fully supported by the Getty Grant Programme

and now participation as Expert of European Network-Pact (Historical Structures in Seismic Areas Ravello, Italy, European University Center for Cultural Heritage)

UNESCO Consultant

1988 Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the First International Seminar of the Modern Principles in Conservation and Restoration of Urban and Rural Cultural Heritage in Seismic Prone Regions, held in Skopje, Macedonia 17-22 October 1988 in organization of RZZSK, IZIIS, ICCROM and supported by UNESCO till 1989 Acting Operating Director at RZZSK

1987 till 1984 - Conservator at RZZSK

Certificate Architectural Conservation Course ARC 86 - ICCROM, Rome-Italy

1984 till 1996 Senior Conservator at RZZSK. Principal investigator and coordinator of many national and international projects. Principal investigator and coordinator of expert groups.

1977 till 1983 First Head of Documentation Centre at RZZSK

1971 till 1978 - Younger Conservator at RZZSK

Fields of activities:

Recording of Architectural Heritage;

Design of System for processing and systematization of cultural heritage activities documentation;

Research conservation and restoration projects;

Research - Adobe Earthen structures;

Protection of Cultural Heritage in Seismic Prone regions;

Protection regimes and conservation treatment of Urban and Rural Cultural Heritage;

Preventive Conservation in Museums; Stone Masonry; Lime and Lime mortars;

Transfer of conservation-restoration knowledge and experience.

Knowledge of language:

English, French, Italian, understanding Spanish

The Republic of Macedonia
Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments –RZZSK
Skopje
Evlija Celebia bb
P.O.Box 225
91000-Skopje, Macedonia
tel. ++ 389 91 116 465
fax. ++ 389 91 227 240
e-mail: rzsindok@lotus.mpt.com.mk

Lazar SUMANOV
Ph.D.-York, UK

Deputy Director
and
Head of Department
The Republic of Macedonia Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments –RZZSK
Skopje