TIRANA IS [NOT] AN ISLAND The experimental framework of spatial and architectural interventions in Albania’s capital After centuries of isolation and suppression by one of the harshest communist dictatorships, Albania has made great efforts in opening up towards modernisation and freedom. Although the country faces many similar difficulties like its neighbours, the way it deals with them doesn’t show many similarities. Looking for original solutions in order to respond to its problems and to create a new identity, Albania’s capital has become a place where rational and bizarre elements co-exist, generating an identity that’s not permanent but always about to change. A mosaic-like portrait of Tirana – a city that provokes architects to dare more and at the same time blocks them in front of its monumental ruins.
TIRANA IST [K]EINE INSEL
Saimir KristoPrimo
2015
Abstract
TIRANA IS [NOT] AN ISLAND The experimental framework of spatial and architectural interventions in Albania’s capital After centuries of isolation and suppression by one of the harshest communist dictatorships, Albania has made great efforts in opening up towards modernisation and freedom. Although the country faces many similar difficulties like its neighbours, the way it deals with them doesn’t show many similarities. Looking for original solutions in order to respond to its problems and to create a new identity, Albania’s capital has become a place where rational and bizarre elements co-exist, generating an identity that’s not permanent but always about to change. A mosaic-like portrait of Tirana – a city that provokes architects to dare more and at the same time blocks them in front of its monumental ruins.I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
