The series “Exploring Modern Architecture” has been selected by ARCHITECTURE MASTERPRIZE PHOTO AWARDS 2021, as Honorable Mention in Exterior Architecture Photography / Historic Exterior Category

Title: “EXPLORING MODERN ARCHITECTURE”

Prize: Honorable Mention in Exterior Architecture Photography / Historic Exterior

Location: Tirana, Albania

The photos are part of the personal project "Exploring Modern Architecture in Albania". It is a photography research in the beginnings of Modernism, that starts in early 1920 and continues in 1940, which later influenced the post-war modernism in architecture. An important period in history that marks the development of main Albanian cities as modern European urban centres. An optimistic period in history, but which has been forgotten and not very much appreciated. In the photos is shown "Palazzo GLA" (today National Archeological Museum), built during 1940 in the style of Rational Modernism.

"Palazzo GLA" known as "The Columns" in Tirana, is built in the 1940 in the Style of Italian Rational Modernism by architect Gherardo Bossio. The photos are captured using a large format 4x5 inch film camera / © Alketa Misja Photography