Post by Brunilda Pali

"Archistars such as Winy Maas, Bjarke Ingels, and Stefano Boeri will need to be summoned by a parliamentary inquiry – if not by SPAK – to explain precisely how it was possible that one of the poorest countries in Europe was able to build the most “visionary” skyscrapers. Where did they think the money was coming from? Did they ever do their due diligence on their projects or did they simply take the cash and enjoy the praise of the great leader? [...] I don’t say this lightly, but every single architect whose damning voice has been recorded in The Albanian Files is a direct threat to Albanian democracy, coated in the flimsiest of theoretical outfits. This publication presents 750 pages of evidence of their moral bankruptcy, disdain for well-managed public processes, hatred of the environment, and ignorance of the rule of law. For the sake of architecture itself, whatever future, post-Rama government will be installed – and I have no doubt it will come – must hold each and everyone of these people to account: what they knew, whom they talked to, whose money they accepted. They will have to pay." https://lnkd.in/eckQRbtS