The Department of Architecture at EPOKA University, welcomes participants to the second International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design (ICAUD), to be held on 8 – 10 May, 2014 in Tirana, Albania. Building upon the success of the first ICAUD, the conference promises a wide range of topics on architecture and urban design and an international audience of academics and practitioners from around the world. The 1-ICAUD provided an international forum for knowledge exchange where 244 scientific papers and posters were presented by academics from 50 different countries. All contributions were reviewed from a scientific committee consisting of internationally acclaimed scholars. The keynote speakers comprised internationally renowned academics and local policy makers and the conference was saluted by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Transport and Public Works of Albania and the Mayor of Tirana.