Postcard-style illustration of a shopping centre reimagined for the future, glowing at dusk

POSTCARD FROM THE FUTURE: THE LAST COMMON GROUND

There is an idea I keep coming back to: Retail may be one of the last common grounds we have left. Religion has lost much

Don’t Be an Easy Client: 5 Questions to Ask Before the Concept Begins

by Mauro Moro I find the first kickoff with clients pretty difficult. Not because they are demanding. But for the opposite reason. They are not

AI in architecture — a holographic office flooded with generated design options, nobody left to choose between them

Adrift in options.

Adrift in Options: AI, Facades, and the Postcard from the Future A note on AI in architecture, and the discipline nobody is teaching anymore. The

Why Is the Most Important Part of Architecture Expected to Be Free?

Why Is the Most Important Part of Architecture Expected to Be Free? Let me ask you two questions. If you went to the dentist with

Postcard from the Future

Postcard from the Future There is a generation of architects, mine, who learned by hand. We traced over drawings with ink. We built models out

A Design Philosophy

A Design Philosophy If we zoom out, the lessons converge into a simple framework. Not a method. A position. What follows are not style rules,

The Disappearing Drawing

The Disappearing Drawing The Disappearing Drawing A few weeks ago, I picked up a stack of architecture books. One of them was an expensive monograph

When Technology Prevails, Architecture Is Forgotten

When Technology Prevails, Architecture Is Forgotten The architect’s future role is not to add more systems but to design the threshold before compensation becomes necessary.

What Are Concept Architecture Services?

What Are Concept Architecture Services? What Concept Architecture Services Actually Cover Most clients arrive at an architect’s office with an idea. A site. A vision.

Concept rendering of a checkout-free retail storefront (Nike x TikTok pop-up concept) with no cashier and no human interaction, by Hopen Lin

The Vanishing of the Threshold. Now what?

What is the threshold of a shop today? For most of retail history, it was a door, a bell, or a person behind a counter

When Architecture Loses Weight, Lightness Gains Meaning

How little architecture is still architecture? What if architecture no longer needed to begin with addition? What if the future of architecture depended not on

When buildings become simpler, life becomes more complex

There was a time when buildings carried an extraordinary degree of complexity. Not only through styles or historical periods, but through space itself. Interiors were

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