Bora Malko

 Social Housing The Road to Freedom Image 1 Diogenes: “You will take no thought for marriage or children or native land: all that will  be sheer nonsense to you, and you will leave the house of your fathers and make your  home in a tomb or a deserted tower or even a jar.” . . . “Leading this life you  will say that you are happier than the Great King.” — Lucian, Philosophies for Sale 9; trans. A. M. Harmon, Loeb ed., 1929 Social Housing is commonly treated as an overused, ill-defined term adorning many books, articles, magazines as well as The Housing and Regeneration Bill 10 . The adjective  social  is meant as a linguistic means of emphasizing its detachment from the private housing, with a boundary that remains ambiguously not impermeable. While trying to identify what social housing may stand for and the varying models it includes,  need  is the one element that seems to unify the different concepts involved. A cornerstone whose form and relev...

 Fictional Architectural Practice A brief from year 1 Poster on the organizational structure and aim of the practice Poster on the office structure and location of the practice

The Boulevard without a city Tirana           Walking on the boulevard today, from north to south, one will face a series of buildings each competing for the loosely given attention of the onlooker. Existing in a constant state of self-denial they are bearers of Tirana’s past, positioned along the axis in no special order, the old keeping company to the young. The boulevard itself, as the buildings are as much part of it as the walls are part of a building, is a bundle of layered history which this essay aims to unravel. In the time between Albanian's independence in 1912 until the beginning of the First World War in 1914, The country's capital had shifted from different cities throughout the region, starting in Vlore which was one of the most influential cities of the South and then to Shkoder, its equal rival in the North to finally end up in Durres closer to the center. 1  The restless movements occurred due to power struggles between lords controll...