Tirana. Architectural Guide

Eled Fagu is a PhD architect who graduated from the University of Architecture in Florence. He has been engaged in teaching since 2006, and since 2014 has been an ordinary professor at the Polytechnic University of Tirana lecturing in Theory of Architecture and Architectural Design Studios. The growing interest in totalitarian architecture and urbanism led to his contribution to the recent debate on the Albanian architectural context. He has published numerous articles and held lectures on Western and Albanian architecture for faculty students but also as part of education programs for secondary school students. Fagu is also active in design praxis with different projects and international collaborations in the field of architectural design and construction technology.

Alfred Diebold is a German photographer, filmmaker, author, and economist based in Berlin, Germany. Educated in Germany, the US (NYU-Tisch School of the Arts), and Italy (Rome School of Photography), he has published photo books, produced films, and contributed to magazines and newspapers with his photos, articles, and essays, among others for the United Nations, the German Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Deutschlandfunk, World Bank, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and TAZ. In recent years he has concentrated on stories about Central Asia, the Arctic, and Albania. He likes to report about the great challenges of our time, such as climate change in the Arctic and high mountains around the world, the drying-up of the Aral Sea, and international water conflicts. His website is alfreddiebold.de.