Dear reader interested on Tirana,

Welcome to the city of energy surprise and initiative... Welcome to Tirana... Welcome to Tirana Architecture Week!

We live in a city that is passing at present day an essential moment of its own history. A moment of hope, growth, action, but also a moment of reflection and re-appropriating… Meantime we need to jump to catch up the lost time of the past.., but we need as well a constructive confrontation of thinking, ideas, and projects to built a healthy and sustainable future! We need to learn from success as well as reflect on certain present and future concerns...

That is why together with the excellent international team of the POLIS University and Co-PLAN Institute for Habitat Development we generated such provocation toward the city, the professionals and partner institutions inviting them to speak up and respond such dilemmas posed by the intellectual temptation called TAW Tirana Architecture Week! It is going to be two intensive months of full public events and performances, open debates and forums, conferences and workshops, exhibitions and international competitions, etc... The city will be in the hands of citizens and professionals, so this sound exiting and inspiring to me and my staff at the Municipality of Tirana.

I really look forward to be part of such fantastic unique atmosphere! I look forward to the new great ideas. Don't hesitate to join us! We have a great context here and a nice story to be shared.

You can be part of it and give your own contributions on such challenging moments we experience nowadays, as well as the future we built everyday…

Sincerely yours
Lulzim BASHA
Mayor of Tirana,
Albania