Skender Luarasi

Books published

Monography

• Luarasi, Skender. Survival through Architecture: A Survey and Analysis of the Architectural Oeuvre of Skënder Kristo Luarasi, 1908-1976. Graz: TU Graz Verlag, 2023, ISBN (print) 978-3-85125-937-7, ISBN (e-book) 978-3-85125-938-4, DOI. 10.3217/978-3-85125-937-7.

Edited Volumes

• H. He, Gary and Skender Luarasi, Ed. & Author. The Limits of Self-generation: Collected Perspectives on the Contemporary Concept(s) of Organicism. London & New York: Routledge, 2023, ISBN 9781032015712
• Mansure, Adil and Skender Luarasi, Ed.  & Author. Finding San Carlino: Collected Perspectives on Geometry and the Baroque. London & New York: Routledge, 2019, ISBN 9781138313002.

Book/monography in the making

• Luarasi, Skender. On the Art of Stopping in Architecture: A Speculative Inquiry into Style, Geometry, and Parametricism, in History, projected to be published by Routledge in early 2024.

Papers

• Luarasi, Skender. “Tel Quel: A Second Clarifying Article on the Non-return to Identity of the Saint Procopius Church” (“Tel Quel: Nje artikull I dyte sqarues mbi mos-kthimin ne identitet te kishes se Shen Prokopit.”) Peizazhe te fjalës, September 6, 2024, ISSN 2475-1375.

• Luarasi, Skender. “The Destructive Rebirth of the Pyramid of Tirana.” Architectural Record, RECORD Forum, February 27, 2024.  ISSN 0003-858X.

• Luarasi, Skender and Gary Huafan He. “Introduction.” The Limits of Self-Generation: Collected Perspectives on the Contemporary Concept(s) of Organicism. London & New York: Routledge, 2023, ISBN 9781032015712, pp. 1-12.

• Luarasi, Skender. “’In What Style Should We Build?’ Today: Style as World-Crust.” The Limits of Self-Generation: Collected Perspectives on the Contemporary Concept(s) of Organicism. London & New York: Routledge, 2023, ISBN 9781032015712, pp. 75-93.

• • Luarasi, Skender and Llazar Kumaraku. “The Sustainability of the City through (Urban) Form: A Speculative Inquiry along Tirana’s Main Axis.” Paper presented in ICONA Conference at the University of Sapienza, July 1st, 2021, and published in proceedings: Canon and Code: The Language of Arts in Today’s World, edited by Orazio Carpenzano Et al. Rome: Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2023, ISBN: 9788833655031, pp 462-469. 
  • Luarasi, Skender. “Tel Quel: Misdirected Tower Op-positions” (“Tel Quel: O-pozitarizëm i keqdrejtuar kullash.”) Peizazhe te fjalës, September 6, 2023, ISSN 2475-1375.

• Kumaraku, Llazar and Skender Luarasi. “Introduction from the Editors.” Forum A+P, Interdisciplinary Journal of Architecture and Built Environment, Issue 26. Tiranë: POLIS University Press, 2023, ISSN 2227-7994, pp. 6-8.

• Skender. “The Life and Death of Skanderbeg Square: The Chronicle of an Undoing Foretold, In a Hundred Years,” Future Anterior Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory and Criticism, Issue 19.1, 2022, ISSN 1934-6026, Print ISSN 1549-9715.
• Luarasi, Skender. “Making the Donkey Drink Water, or the ‘Problem’ of Stopping in the Digital Age,” The Past is Unpredictable: Untimely Interrogations into Architecture, edited by Ingrid Mayrhofer-Hufnagl. Seiten:Transcript, 2022, ISBN: 978-3-8376-6111-8, pp. 173-187.
• Luarasi, Skender. “On Berat, the city of the Necklaces of Light.” Andi Papastefani, In Berat walking and sketching. Tirana: Gent Grafik, 2022, ISBN 976-9928-294-80-7, pp. 29-36.
• Luarasi, Skender. “As is: The First Albanian Skyscraper Demolished” (“Siç është: Prishet qiellgërvishtësi I pare shqiptar”). Position paper published in the Facebook page of the Albanian Union of Architects: https://www.facebook.com/AUAAlbanianUnionOfArchitectsAndUrbanPlanners. February 23, 2022.
• Luarasi, Skender. “Explanatory Essay on the non-return to Identity of Saint Procopius Church” (Artikull Sqarues mbi mos-kthimin në identitet të Kishës së Shën Prokopit.”), Gazeta Shqiptare, 4 Maj, 2023, http://gazetashqiptare.al/2023/05/04/artikull-sqarues-mbi-mos-kthimin-ne-identitet-te-kishes-se-shen-prokopit/.
• Luarasi, Skender. “The Destructive Rebirth of the Pyramid.” Forum A+P, Interdisciplinary Journal of Architecture and Built Environment, Issue 24. Tiranë: POLIS University Press, 2021, ISSN 2227-7994, pp. 97-100.
• Luarasi, Skender and Valerio Perna. “Introduction from the Editors.” Forum A+P, Interdisciplinary Journal of Architecture and Built Environment, Issue 23. Tiranë: POLIS University Press, 2021, ISSN 2227-7994, pp. 6-8.
• Luarasi, Skender and Valerio Perna. “Introduction from the Editors.” Forum A+P, Interdisciplinary Journal of Architecture and Built Environment, Issue 22. Tiranë: POLIS University Press, 2021, ISSN 2227-7994, pp. 6-7.
• Mansure, Adil and Skender Luarasi. “Exhibition as Architectural Research: A report on the Instrumentality of an Eternal Baroque.” Bitácora Arquitectura, Journal of the School of Architecture of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM, Issue 46, 2021, ISSN 2594-0856, pp. 78-95.

• Luarasi, Skender. “Where Do You Stop: An Inquiry of the Design Process, In History.” Proceedings of the ConCave Ph.D. Symposium: Divergence in Architectural Research, March 5-6, 2020, edited by Hayri Dortdivanlioglu and Marisabel Marratt. Atlanta, GA: School of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021, ISBN 978-0-9615650-1-5, pp. 185-190.
• Luarasi, Skender. “Out our home” tel quel: An opinion on the Albanian Pavilion in the Venice Biennale 2021, Forum A+P, Interdisciplinary Journal of Architecture and Built Environment, Issue 23.  2021, ISSN 2227-7994, pp. 97-100,
• Luarasi, Skender. “Albanian Archipelagos: The City of a Non-normativity Foretold.” Forum A+P, Interdisciplinary Journal of Architecture and Built Environment, Issue 22. Tiranë: POLIS University Press 2021, ISSN 2227-7994, pp. 89-93,
• Luarasi, Skender. “Modernism as the unconscious of globalism: mapping of subjectivities in Sigfried Giedion’s historiography.” Modernisation and Globalization: New Paradigms in Architecture, City, Territory, edited by Florian Nepravishta & Andrea Maliqari. Napoli: La scuola di Pitagora editrice, 2021, ISBN: 978-88-6542-814-6, pp. 57-63.
• Luarasi, Skender. “Punctuating Gjirokastra’s Modernsim.” Rethinking Gjirokastra: Can Architecture and City Planning Stimulate Hope and Growth for Shrinking Cities, OMB Series, Volume 7. Tiranë: POLIS University Press, 2021, ISSN: 2959-4081, pp. 58-65,
• Luarasi, Skender and Adil Mansure. “Drawing as an expanded field: Francesco Borromini’s San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane.” Disegnare, Idee, Imagini: Biannual Journal of the Department of History, Representation and Restoration of Architecture, Issue 61. Rome: University of Sapienza, 2020, ISSN 1123-9247, pp. 82-95, 
• Luarasi, Skender. “Punctuating Tirana’s Disappearing Modernism.” Foreword of Tirana: A 100 Sketches for 100 Years Capital, by Andi Papastefani. Tiranë: Gent Grafik, 2020, ISBN 978-9928-294-25-8, unpaginated,
• Luarasi, Skender. “A White Pyramid and a Center that Is Not a Center.” Log 47, Overcoming Carbon Form. New York: Anyone Corporation, Fall 2019, ISBN 978-0-9992373-5-9, pp. 76-84,
• Luarasi, Skender. “A Proposal for the PhD in Architecture: Toward the “Nocturnal Sky and Toggling Between Research and Practice.” Proceedings of 2019 ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference: The Practice of Teaching | Teaching of Practice, Antwerp, Belgium, 2019, ISBN 978-1-944214-23-4, pp. 246-250.
• Mansure, Adil and Skender Luarasi. “Introduction: After San Carlino.” Finding San Carlino: Collected Perspectives on Geometry and the Baroque. London & New York: Routledge, 2019, ISBN 9781138313002, pp. 1-7.
• Luarasi, Skender. “Toggling through San Carlino: A Speculative Inquiry into the Geometry and Process in San Carlino and its Interpretations in History.” Finding San Carlino: Collected Perspectives on Geometry and the Baroque. London & New York: Routledge, 2019, ISBN 9781138313002, pp. 25-48.
• Mansure, Adil and Skender Luarasi. “Conclusion: The Future Pasts of San Carlino.” Finding San Carlino: Collected Perspectives on Geometry and the Baroque. London & New York: Routledge, 2019, ISBN 9781138313002, pp. 142-147.