ZERO
articles on Pritzker 2017 written by Albanian architects.
DISCOVERY
Pritzker Prize 2017- celebrates the discovery of a studio that impacts its surroundings by quality, rather than the international success and impact of an architect.
LOCAL in geography
INTERNATIONAL in quality
A signal that the qualitative architecture, without the popularity, show and mediatic coverage, can be valued as Nobel – worthy.
POSITIVE
to countries like ours, where decent architects work and positively impact their surroundings, without passing the geographic borders of Balkans.
“How many of these architects do you know to win a Pritzker?”
COMPROMISE
“Cement did to our cities, what even fascism didn’t have the power to do.” Pasolini quotes.
An architect signed for each embarrassing object built in our country. Survival or greed, made them the owners of the architecture that they deny to be represented with.
In this case, saying NO becomes an asset.
“How many of these architects do you know to win a Pritzker?”
IMPOTENT
from the ethical NO that you pronounce, you turn yourself into a huge NO; with a whole system of Don’ts.
“Don’t harm the old,
Don’t make your object so visible
Don’t with the ornaments
Don’t you dare have too much ego, my object.”
Suddenly…
STERILE.
You own a Pencil, a Mouse, many Don’ts, and not a single piece of architecture to create.
you now are…
a “THEORIST”, a CRITIC or a COMMENTER
Painful!
“Now, how many architects do you know to win a Pritzker?”
