TIRANA, February 13/ATA/ The well-known Korça architect Petraq Kolevica passed away at 89 year old.
Minister of Culture Elva Margariti expressed her condolences for the death of Petraq Kolevica.
“Today, we say farewell to one of our architecture teachers, the poet, translator, researcher, Petraq Kolevica. A versatile figure, who has left us important, tangible works, from which the coming generations will have a lot to learn, too! Rest in peace!”, she wrote on social media.
Kolevica completed his construction engineering studies in the period 1952-1957 at the Polytechnic University of Tirana.
He worked for many years as an engineer and architect. His love for his profession was equally close to the world of books, and perhaps this was the main motive for the design of the library building of the city of Korça.
Throughout his career as an architect, he tried to design modern and functional buildings. He was criticized many times for foreign influences and after an argument with Enver Hoxha at the “Albania Today” exhibition he was sent to work as a construction technician in Valias. From that time on, he almost stopped working as an architect.
In his early youth he was interested in poetry. In the 60s, he published the translation of the poem “Demon” by Lermontov, which was very well received by the readers of that time. In 1986, he published the book “German and Austrian Poetry” with translations from German.
At the time of the democratization of Albania, he contributed as an MP in the first pluralist Parliament of Albania and as a member of the Publishing Board of the newspaper “Rilindja Demokratike”. In 1992, the first volume of poems “Songs from bad times” was published, poems previously written by him but unpublished until then. Finally, in 2013, he collected his original poems in the two volumes “Late Harvest”.
Also important in his creativity are the books about Lasgush Poradeci and Mitrush Kuteli, whom he knew personally and had a close friendship with.
“A master with many titles and awards, Petraq Kolevica left an architectural wealth in our city. Endless gratitude!”, wrote the Mayor of Korça Sotiraq Filo today in social media./p.s./
