Arbër Sadiki
Director of Urban Planning Department in the Municipality of Prishtina, Kosovo
Arbër Sadiki (1977), architect, lecturer, critic. Graduated from Polytechnic University of Tirana, he holds a PhD degree from the University of Belgrade focused to the relationship between social circumstances and architecture in Prishtina between: 1945-1990.
Assistant curator of the Kosovo pavilion at the 14th La Biennale di Venezia.
President of Architects Association of Kosovo (November 2013 – November 2014).
Member of the MoMA team for preparing the exhibition and publication “Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980”, MoMA, New York, on 2018.
Member of International Council on Monuments and Sites ICOMOS, Paris.
Member of Docomomo International, Lisbon. International Committee for Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites and Neighborhoods of the Modern Movement.
Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Geneva, Nominator, 2016, 2019 and 2022 Award Cycle.
Recipient of the award “Annual Prize for Scientific Work in the Field of Cultural Heritage”, 2020, awarded by the Ministry of Culture, for his publication entitled: “Architecture of Public Buildings in Prishtina: 1945-1990, Social and Shaping Factors”.
Recipient of “Al Fozan Award for Mosque Architecture”, Riyadh, 2023, for building “Mosque in Tupalla”.
From February 2024, he is in the position of Director of Urban Planning of capital city of Republic of Kosovo, Pristina.