Manfredo di Robilant, with Gjergji Islami and Denada Veizaj

Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)

As part of the Ideas of Living issue, this article investigates spontaneous elements of architecture or shtesa, the Albanian word for expansion that describes the informal modifications to the Communist-era multi-apartment residential buildings of Tirana.

Manfredo di Robilant, Gjergji Islami, and Denada Veizaj, “Shtesa, Tirana,” Ideas of Living – CCA (April, 2018), https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/articles/issues/22/ideas-of-living/57488/shtesa-tirana