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51N4E, Stefano Graziani Falma Fshazi / How Things Meet
51N4E, Stefano Graziani Falma Fshazi / How Things Meet
51N4E, Stefano Graziani Falma Fshazi / How Things Meet
51N4E, Stefano Graziani Falma Fshazi / How Things Meet
51N4E, Stefano Graziani Falma Fshazi / How Things Meet
51N4E, Stefano Graziani Falma Fshazi / How Things Meet

51N4E, Stefano Graziani Falma Fshazi

How Things Meet

€48,00
21 × 30 cm, 264 / 128 p, ills colour, paperback
ISBN 9789490800451
design: Jurgen Maelfeyt
language: English
edition of 2500
May 2016

“Tell me where you want to go first. I will tell you the whole story on the way. My generation is well versed in The Palace of Dreams,’ Ont said, a strange pride straightening his back, as though it had shed a few of its years. ‘As for today’s youth, that’s a different story.”

This dual-narrative, part photo-novel, part real-life journey, tells one story in multiple ways. In its first part, the book couples short stories by Falma Fshazi with photographs by Stefano Graziani. The story of a discovery; an encounter with a strange land, beyond East and West, and a city, Tirana. The second part casts a retrospective look at the construction of a tower designed by 51N4E, and on all the projects that followed in its wake, from 2004 onwards. It describes moments, processes and relationships that allowed the architects to come into contact with a culture and a context so different from their own. Overall, this book is a story of embracing otherness, and a contemplation on how things meet.

“51N4E, in the beginning they were only architects and later they became Belgian immigrants in Albania…” (Edi Rama)

51N4E is a self-steering collective that wants to empower people to be both autonomous and connected. It does so by organizing the supportive processes needed for a collaborative design culture. This collaboration platform combines the internal studios with a growing network of external partners. As such, it mirrors today’s complex reality and produces an ecosystem of knowledge.