Armand Vokshi is a lecturer and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, at the Polytechnic University of Tirana. He graduated at the University of Florence, in the Department of Architecture and then pursued a postgraduate PhD at the University of Florence.

He is also a freelance professional in architecture and urban planning with activity initially in Italy and then in Albania and Kosovo. He is the founder and director of the Avatelier architecture studio, through which he has realized a series of projects in the field of residential blocks and villas, public and commercial buildings, banks, urban master plans, etc. in Albania, Kosovo, Italy and other European countries.

He is the author of various publications and monographs in the field of architecture, as well as the author of many exhibitions, professional and academic conferences on architecture and beyond.

From 2016-2021 he was elected president of AAA (Association of Architects of Albania).

In 2019 he won the Iconic Award in Munich and Big SEE and was nominated in 2019 and 2024 for the Mies Van Der Rohe Award in Barcelona.

AVATELIER was founded in 2005 in Florence (Italy) by Armand Vokshi (Tirana, 1973), who then, in 2009, transferred the studio to Tirana. The various studies and projects carried out by the studio, since the beginning, have been localized in several countries, but recently they have focused particularly on Albania and Kosovo. Some of the works carried out by the motivated staff of the Avatelier studio, as well as Armand Vokshi’s research works, have been published in many articles in professional magazines and international newspapers. They have been part of various exhibitions and references in Albania, the Balkans and other European countries In 2019 AVATELIER won the Iconic Award in Munich and the Big SEE and was nominated in 2019 and 2024 for the Mies Van Der Rohe Award in Barcelona.