Endrit Marku’s Ambiguous Cityscapes Ask Viewers to Question Who Really Shapes Our Everyday Spaces

Endrit Marku (@endritmark) is an architect, visual artist, and lecturer from Tirana, Albania, who draws to explore and question the phenomena of our built environment.

Marku holds a PhD focused on the relationship between space and authority, using Tirana’s shifting urban history across different political periods as his case study. Until 2022 he served as Head of the Department of Architecture and Engineering at POLIS University, where he continues to lead the third-year architecture studio and supervise diploma theses. His academic research centers on the semiotics of architectural form and space, particularly how authority and stakeholders shape the everyday environments people inhabit.

That research feeds directly into his art: he describes his drawings as beginning as “part of the” process of understanding, rather than as finished statements, letting each piece function as visual inquiry rather than illustration alone. His body of work, largely produced in Procreate, presents an “alternative reality” built from architectonic obsession — impossible or exaggerated cityscapes, structures caught mid-construction, and monuments to ordinary building materials, as in his piece “Monument to the Brick.” Recurring pieces titled simply “Process” document buildings and urban forms captured in states of transformation, echoing his academic interest in how cities are continuously reshaped by human intervention.

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