Projects

Urban Data Kosovo project aims to build local capacity for planning agencies, municipal authorities, and planning and architecture schools in urban spatial analytics. The scarce availability of spatial data in Kosovo hinders the country’s ability to plan and prepare for major urban challenges that will affect its cities and the country at- large. This project aims to train the next generation of architects and urban planners in contemporary spatial analytical tools, methods, and visualization, while also working with local stakeholders to identify urgent data needs. In dialogue with MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism, the Kosovo Architecture Foundation…

These are some of the images from a study conducted in 2018 by Ibay Rigby & Katarina Dacic with the participation of students and architects from Kosovo: Etleva Arifi, Iliriana Hoxha, Drilona Hyseni, Rina Kadolli, Vjosa Saracini, Qendrese Termkolli, Bijona Trakaniqi, Fjolla Voca and Diellza Zogaj. The workshop was also supported through public reviews and tutorship of: Valentin Kunik, Guillaume de Morsier, Augustin Casalia, Charlotte Maltherre-Barthes, Ethel Baraona Pohl, Ivan Blasi, Elisa Brusegan, Cesar Reyes, Massimo Triches, Bekim Ramku, Rudina Voca and Butrint Gercari. Below are some of the excerpts from Parallel Sprawl – Learning from Prishtina booklet produced during…

The Office for Urban Regeneration was created from a collaboration between the Kosovo Architecture Foundation and Skye Duncan of the NYC Planning Department in 2014. OUR ran by KAF in the Prishtina Municipality premisses for 6 months and became part of the Prishtina City Urban Planning Department with a full time staff of 6 people. During the initial phase of the project more than 200 individuals, mainly recent graduates where part of accessibility mapping of 18 streets in central Prishtina. The first draft project to be presented to the Municipal authorities was the “Deshmoret e Kombit” street which foresaw the…