Pacarizi Studio

Gëzim Paçarizi is a Kosovar and Swiss architect, graduate of the University of Geneva (1993), and a registered architect in Switzerland (REG A) and Kosovo. For over three decades, his work has focused on context-driven design, cultural continuity, and environmental responsibility. Through realized projects in Kosovo, Albania, and Switzerland, he has contributed to shaping the post-war architectural landscape with interventions grounded in local identity and contemporary expression. In 2014, he represented Kosovo as curator of the National Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. His work has been nominated for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and the EU Mies Award, and he received the BIGSEE Award (2019) and the SHARE Opera Omnia Distinction (2025). He has received awards and distinctions in several national and international architectural competitions. He has lectured and served as a visiting critic at the University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina,” POLIS University, the Polytechnic University of Tirana, South East European University in Tetovo, the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin), the University of Geneva, and the Dessau Institute of Architecture (DIA) at Bauhaus Dessau. He has participated as a speaker at ETH Zürich, including the Seminar Week “Shocks of Change” (2017), at TEDx Tirana, and at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London within the British Council program “Atlas of the Unbuilt World” (2013). He was a founding board member of Autostrada Biennale in Prizren, and his work has been published internationally in A10, VOLUME, ARHITECTURA, Inside Outside, ArchDaily, Dezeen, and Designboom.