Thinking beyond our modern conception of comfort.

Mexico City feels like a forest, roots and green bursting out of every corner, this palimpsest of a city has been, for some time now, devouring itself.

As we enter our last year, we are synthesizing our learnings on the interrelated topics of energy use, material resources, and environmental design.

Which nature prevails in the industrial places that industry abandons?

I am no longer a child. I desperately try to salvage sound carcasses.

From a brief history of the aesthetic project of “the wild,” a gripping story emerges.

What would happen if we were able to visualize and instrument cities in the same way that a biologist captures details about molecules?

Having autonomy over one’s living space allows for the development of a personal design process: a hyperindividual system of logic that responds to daily rhythm.

Ice suggests that split second of instability, the shock of almost losing connection to the ground. Or dare say, we slip.

Exploration of the role of branding in urbanism efforts and appreciation of the unbranded projects in our streets.

The sun hung heavy and hot in the southern sky that day. It beat down across the countryside without a cloud in sight to stop it. A young shepherd attempting to guide his sheep to safety put up a hand, imploring the cars to give his herd a few minutes to cross the highway.

The land upon which the compound sprawled had been rented out by UNIFIL years ago to host the foreign regiment that continues to patrol the southern border to this day. Years of endless conflict had, conversely, birthed an effort in homemaking, thus grafting a piece of Indonesia into the little Lebanese village.

It marks the difference between birding aesthetics and artifact aesthetics: the former is a cognitive aesthetics strongly motivated by an outward curiosity and sensitivity, whereas the latter is able to detect beauty in a much narrower scope of creatures that fall in the manmade categories of cute.

A close encounter…

Time moves differently in this neighborhood…