saving an old glory: letter to renny booth

l have and I will also agree, a masterplan to save dilapidated undervalued long left standing building originally of great merit but likely lacking in funds or vision or investment Continue reading →

stephen maas

Stephen Maas has been a friend for 20 years, we first met in Nimes during the time of sir Norman fosters construction of the Nimes Mediateque, in the south of Continue reading →

heinrich harrer and the third eye

Like any other journey, architecture is for me inspired through experience, and reaching certain goals, and opening up opportunities and possibilities and understanding. I enclose here some important details taken Continue reading →

charles baudelaire

In December 1868 the third edition of Les Fleurs du mal, volume one of the poet’s complete works — went on sale in Paris. Along with an introduction by the Continue reading →

standing still

The careful and calculated observation of nature and that of seeing things around us (john berger: ways of seeing) with watchful and trained eye, is a necessary and important lesson Continue reading →

facade inspired by armadillo skin

Point 92′s latest edition, is a white armadillo, the gucci bag or however we wish to refer to it or call it, but it has now acquired a very large Continue reading →

the architect: modern day pharaoh?

Not so long I came across a book that somehow dealt with the Hiram Key, or the sort, and within it, there had been mention about how a man once Continue reading →

jackson pollock

Probably the most important artist of the modern art era, part of the abstract movement, Jackson Pollock invented or popularised the drip painting style, an inimitable art form unique to Continue reading →

beauty according to kant

“A work can be torturously complex, extravagant, excessively vulgar even…or it can be so simple and plain, almost to the point where it is devoid of any embellishment or decoration, Continue reading →

marine plywood returns to architecture

In point92, a boutique office development that was recently completed for OBYU, we managed to use marine plywood which is (a material very underrated by the industry players) and not Continue reading →