Lajdi Sulaj was born in 1991 in Vlora (AL). He studied architecture at Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (CH), where he graduated in 2016, obtaining SIA-Masterpreis Architektur 2016, with a project of an hotel in Sankt Moritz. He collaborated with offices around Italy, Sweden and Switzerland. He is currently living and working in Zürich, where in 2020 he co-founded STUDIO VLORA. He is a teaching assistant at the chair of Valerio Olgiati at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio.