Activities throughout the years
April 12, 2018
On 12 of April, MSc. Greta Disha was invited to make a presentation on concerns of post-graduate architectural challenges and difficulties. In this presentation the students of Architecture department were introduced with issues that they will face in first steps of their professional career. The goal of the event was principally focused on different aspects regarding the relationship between architects, ideas, clients and other actors. MSc. Greta Disha also introduced her own personal journey in architecture in order to provide a better understanding of these early and crucial architectural challenges. This presentation was very informative also about certain criteria which young architects have to fulfill in order to be established with their own activity in the market. The department of Architecture was very pleased to have this session and thanks MSc. GretaDisha for her presentation.
April 3, 2018
Professors Anna Bruna Menghini, Francesco Defilippis and Michele Montemurro from Politecnico di Bari department of architecture and civil engineering, conducted three open lectures at Epoka University department of Architecture.
The titles of the lectures were:
Francesco Defilippis -New, Old and Place. A virtuous relationship for the re-construction of urban form.
Anna Bruna Menghini-Architectures and landscapes of industry. Memory and reuse.
Michele Montemurro-Rarefy/Densify. Strategies for the reuse of drosscapes.
February 19-25, 2018
In the framework of the Erasmus+ KA107, Mobility, from February 19 - 25, 2018, professors from department of Architecture, Edmond Manahasa and Egin Zeka participated in the “PoliBA Italo-Balkan Architecture, International Urban Design Workshop 2018, Reusing the Disused Work Spaces” organized by Politecnico di Bari in Italy.
The main goal of the workshop was to share multidisciplinary researches between the most important schools of architecture in the Balkan Region and the School of Architecture at Politecnico di Bari. During the workshop, professors and students discussed different methodological approaches, both theoretical and practical, regarding the problem of the form of contemporary city and that of its spatial design.
January 29, 2018
On the 29th of January 2018 students and staff from Epoka University, including the Rector, Prof. Dr. Güngör Turan, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Salih Ozcan, and the Head of the Department of Architecture, Dr. Edmond Manahasa, visited the Municipality of Tirana and met with the Mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj. During that meeting, the Head of the Architecture Department of Epoka University, Dr. Edmond Manahasa and the Mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj, signed a collaboration agreement. This collaboration agreement provides for internship opportunities for Epoka students with the Municipality of Tirana and a sharing of human resource, knowledge, and infrastructure. The Architecture Department of Epoka University and the Municipality will share information and research on urban development and planning, explore opportunities for collaboration in projects, and provide opportunities for ongoing visits and exchanges.
This is an exciting opportunity for Epoka students to gain hands-on experience and contribute to the ongoing betterment of Tirana for its citizens and visitors.
About a third of the population of the Czech Republic live at housing estates today, in Prague it is even almost one half of the population. So far, we as a society, concentrate during revitalizing mainly on individual buildings and their structural and technological standard and we did not pay much attention to a search for a long term strategy for the development of these locations.
What next? What should a long-term vision for these areas look like?
How to enter them in a conceptual manner and how to start the process of their gradual transformation into attractive parts of the urban fabric?
How to reduce risks of future negative developments?
Michal Kohout, 1964*Architect, teacher, and theorist, he is Head of the Building Theory Institute at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University, Prague; he is also is in charge of a course on housing and a design course at the same school. He has designed and co-designed dozens of projects, more than 30 of which were built and some received numerous Czech national as well as international awards and were presented at exhibitions of Czech and international architecture. He is registered with the Czech Chamber of Architects, is a co-founder of the UNIT architekti studio, the Centre for Housing Quality research organization, and Zlatý řez publishers (since 1992), where he is a co-editor of a magazine of the same name. As a writer and editor, he has published a number of books and articles on modern Czech architecture – Bohemia: Modern Architecture (2014), Moravia and Silezia: 20th Century Architecture (2005), Prague: 20th Century Architecture (1996), and housing and the theory of the built environment Housing Estates, what next? (2016), Collective Housing: A Spatial Typology (2015), My House, Our Street:
Coordinated Development of Individual Housing (2014). He is the head of many research projects and an expert on public and professional housing policy.
