TIRANA, May 7/ATA/- The well-known architect and painter Maks Velo died at the age of 84.
Velo had been suffering from anemia for a long time and hospitalized for several days at Mother Teresa University Hospital Center where he lost the battle with anemia.
Maks Velo was born in Paris on August 31, 1935. After his birth, the Velo family returned to Korça, Albania, where Maks spent his childhood.
After graduating from high school, he continued his studies at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at Polytechnic University of Tirana.
He graduated from university with a degree in architecture and in 1960 participated in the first design event in Tirana. He further worked at the Tirana design bureau.
Velo was jailed in 1978 after he was accused by Communist officials of expressing ‘modern tendencies’.
He was sentenced to ten years in prison and hard labour after being convicted of agitation and propaganda against the system. Velo was released in 1986 and then forced to work in a factory until the fall of Communism. //a.i/
