POMPEJANO FEDERICA

During the 20th century, embedded in the spirit of the nation- and state-building logic, Albania underwent three profound social transformations (Bardhoshi, 2011) based on state-driven development and modernisation projects and articulated by specific ideological perspectives governments had on society, culture, and people and that materialised...

Cultural monuments conservation issues arose in Socialist Albania nearly in the middle of the 20th century. Regarding the protection of historic centres, the country made great efforts to preserve wide historic urban and rural areas. Anticipating what would be defined as "historic and architectural areas" in the UNESCO 1976 Recommendation...

This article is based on the author recent PhD research results on Traditional timber roofs in Gjirokastra, historic citadel located in the Drinos Valley, South Albania. In this paper, the author will focus on Albanian traditional timber roof structures and will propose a first typology classification of traditional timber roofs in Gjirokastra,...

In the aftermath of the Second World War, the communist party came into power in Albania where most of the society was composed of the peasantry. In line with the Soviet model, the new society that the regime aimed to build was constituted of two social groups creating the working mass: workers and peasants. To pursue the ideal of a new...

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