Enver Faja was an Albania

Albania

Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...

n architect

Architect

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 and diplomat

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. Faja served as the Ambassador

Ambassador

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 of Albania

Albania

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 to Poland

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 from 1992 to 1996.

Artan Shkrell, the head of Albania's Architects Association, called Faja, whose career spanned more than fifty years, "one of the main figures of the Albanian architecture

Architecture

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." Faja's design portfolio included the National Historical Museum

National Historical Museum (Albania)

The National Historical Museum in Tirana, Albania, is the country's largest museum. It was opened on 28 October 1981 and is 27,000 square metres in size, while 18,000 square metres are available for expositions. The museum was designed by Albanian architect, Enver Faja.The construction of the...

, master plan

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 of Student’s Town in Tirana

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, and the University of Tirana

University of Tirana

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's Faculty of Science building.

Enver Faja died from a long illness on October 5, 2011, in Strasbourg

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, France

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, at the age of 77. His funeral was held at the National Gallery of Arts in Tirana.