Ali Muka was born in Toshkës, Përmet, and became a scholar of folk architecture and a professor. He completed his higher education and graduated as a civil engineer from the University of Tirana in 1966. Since 1969, he has been involved in the study of settlements and traditional housing as a precursor at the Institute of Folk Culture, and from 1979, he worked at this institute. He has published monographs such as “Banesa fshatare dhe familja e madhe” (“Village houses and the extended family”)(Tirana, 2001), “Vendbanime dhe banesa popullore shqiptare” (“Settlements and traditional Albanian houses”)(co-author, 2004), “Ndërtime tradicionale shqiptare” (“Traditional Albanian buildings”) (Tirana, 2007), as well as a series of scholarly articles. He has given lectures on folk architecture, provided assistance in the establishment of the Museum of Medieval Art in Korçë and the museum complex of the Albanian League of Prizren, in the project design for the open-air village museum, and for the National Ethnographic Museum, etc. He passed away in 2022. (In the photo: Ali Muka)
Text: Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 2 , Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2008, page 1771.
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