24/06/2026
GG-loop at Bread & Heart Festival, Tirana. breadandheartfestival
Albania is becoming a remarkable place to observe right now: a country where architecture, landscape, culture and public policy are being brought into the same conversation around the future of its territory.
Bread & Heart Festival felt like a clear expression of this energy: a generous gathering where public institutions, architects, artists, students and citizens met around urgent questions of land, coast, water, development, memory and abundance.
It was a joy for Giacomo Garziano to take part in two conversations with old friends and new companions in architecture, including José Selgas, Nils Becker, Manuelle Gautrand, Milos Zivkovic, Alberto Veiga, Pablo Oriol, David Van Severen and Kersten Geers.
Alongside the panels, GG-loop contributed a series of maquettes for residential, hospitality and landscape projects across Tirana, Vlorë, Kavajë, Qerret and Golem, including Nautilus, Kulshedra, Narea, Seastra and Lisindra, together with a 2 km canal landscape project in Vlorë.
The exhibition also included an artwork developed with Olta Ymeri Studio and Saas Studio for Serendra in Shëngjin.
Grateful to Bread & Heart Festival, AKPT / NTPA, Agjencia e Zhvillimit të Territorit, the fellow architects, and everyone helping to shape this generous field of exchange.
Faleminderit, Albania.