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I’ve been attracted to the word “event” lately, as it creates clear temporal relationship between assets (objects, people, location, audio, etc) — all become the contextual ground that makes an “event”.

The upcoming pivotal events will find folks that can act as the mixer, unlocking the assets mentioned about that will open doors for further... See more

What keeps you returning to architecture?

I’ve talked about architecture for a long time. I feel like it emerged out of questions I used to have — or answers I used to find — in the city. I used to want to write about the city all the time and a lot of my books take place in cities. Then I used to talk about the sentence as a city, as a space to... See more

I was delighted when I found the contemporary French philosopher Alain de Botton and his book “The Architecture of Happiness,” about the philosophical and psychological relationship between architecture and our identities.

De Botton writes: “The buildings we admire are ultimately those which, in a variety of ways, extol the values we think... See more