Exhibit, book feature modern Italian architecture in Albania

TIRANA, June 14 – Modern Italian architecture in Tirana and other Albanian cities will be featured in a four-day event at the National Museum of History where a book and exhibition will be launched. The event organized by the Italian Institute of Culture opens on Friday, June 15 with the promotion of the book “Modern Italian architecture in Albanian cities” a bilingual Italian-Albanian book to be followed by an exhibition focusing on modern Italian architecture in Tirana.
“The book promotion and the exhibition document the results achieved by the Faculty of Architecture in Bari and the ICAR Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture of the Bari Polytechnic University in several years of research on modern Italian architecture in Albania carried out since 2005 in cooperation with political institutions and Albanian universities with the target of promoting this heritage.”
The book analyses regulatory plans of Albanian towns compiled by Italian architects and research on the buildings constructed from 1925 to 1944 in Tirana. Based on documents collected from the Central Technical Construction Archive in Tirana and direct inspections, some critical re-designs have been compiled and hypotheses formulated for their re-qualification, paying special attention to the monumental axis in Tirana.
Claudio D’Amato, the dean of the Faculty of Architecture in Bari is participating in the event.
The exhibition at the National Museum of History in Tirana will remain open from June 15t to 18.
Italian architects designed major public buildings and squares in Albania from 1925 to 1943. In Tirana, Italian planners and architects designed the main square named after the national hero Skanderbeg, the central boulevard, the ministry buildings, the national bank and the town hall.