PODCAST | Building Architecture Culture Talks

Date

20 May – 21 Nov 2025

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Format

The Building Architecture Culture talks is the podcast series produced by KoozArch which accompanies the Public Programme of Albania’s participation in the Biennale Architettura 2025 curated by Anneke Abhelakh. This series is developed around a number of conversations hosted within the Albanian pavilion throughout May - November 2025 where a group of interdisciplinary guests convened to discuss and explore Albania’s evolving architectural identity.

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Installation view, Pavilion of Albania, La Biennale di Venezia 2025. Photo: Andrea Rossetti. Courtesy of the Albanian Pavilion 2025

Maverick12, "Tirana," photograph, 1989.

Albanian Film Archive (AQSHF), “Enver Hoxha do të rrojë në shekuj (Long Live Enver Hoxha),” screenshot from archive film I/2-1056, 1988.Opening of the monument dedicated to the deceased dictator Enver Hoxha.

Skanderbeg Square in Tirana, Albania designed by 51N4E. The design reorganizes the vast ex-communist space in a simple yet radical manner, opening it up to new ways of reading. Photo by Ilir Tsouko