Skender Luarasi is an architect, educator, and writer. He holds a Master of Architecture from MIT and Ph.D. in architecture from Yale, which focuses on how design processes end, and the history of such questions. He is the co-author of Finding San Carlino and The Limits of Self-Generation, both from Routledge, and the author of Survival through Architecture (TU Graz Verlag, 2023). He currently directs the Faculty of Research and Development at POLIS University in Tirana.