OODA‘s upcoming book, Some Kind of Romance, Any Kind of Existence, makes its world debut at the Bread & Heart Festival in Tirana, and OTIIMA window frames part of the story.
What does it look like when an architecture studio decides its next book should not read like an architecture book? That’s the question OODA has been considering, and at this year’s Bread & Heart Festival in Tirana, they are giving the world its first answer.
Some Kind of Romance, Any Kind of Existence, the studio’s forthcoming publication, will officially launch in October 2026. Before its release, the book is being introduced in built form as a timber pavilion at Skanderbeg Square, serving as a preview. This pavilion acts as a physical first chapter for a work that blends architecture and fiction.
Architecture as fiction
Most architecture books are retrospectives, a curated archive of completed work, annotated and photographed. Some Kind_Any Kind takes a different path. Conceived as an inner dialogue between Some Kind of Romance and Any Kind of Existence, the publication unfolds like a novel, building a world rather than documenting one.
It's a shift from the archive to the imagination — from what has been built to what architecture, at its most essential, can mean."
This is a bold and appropriate choice for a studio that views design as interpretation rather than mere execution. OODA does not simply address briefs; they consider what a building seeks to express. The book represents their most direct exploration of this question to date.
The pavilion as a first page
To bring the book’s world preview to life, OODA created a pavilion at Skanderbeg Square as the setting for Some Kind_Any Kind’s first public event. Rather than making a bold architectural statement, the pavilion supports the book as a backdrop that reflects its ideas. Exposed columns, beams, floors, and diagonal supports present architecture in its simplest form, creating a space that highlights the book’s concepts. OTIIMA window frames at two corners mark the entrance and subtly separate inside from outside, and public from private.
The Bread & Heart Festival brings together over 300 international and local teams alongside guests from the arts, media, and environmental sectors to explore how architecture can balance the pressure for new development with the need to protect the land. It’s a context where hard questions have a place, and where materials, details, and construction choices tell a story.
For OTIIMA, being part of OODA’s work shows that a window frame is more than just a technical detail. It is a choice, a statement, and a way to express what we believe about the connection between architecture and nature, and between inside and outside spaces.
We will be in Tirana from June 3 to 5. If you are there as well, come visit the pavilion and see up close what happens when timber, light, and a well-crafted window frame come together in an Albanian square.
