The Disappearing Drawing A few weeks ago, I picked up a stack of architecture books. One of them was an expensive monograph of John Pawson:
The architect’s future role is not to add more systems but to design the threshold before compensation becomes necessary. A glass tower in Phoenix is
What Concept Architecture Services Actually Cover Most clients arrive at an architect’s office with an idea. A site. A vision. Sometimes a napkin sketch. 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
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
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
When Persuasion Moves Online, What Is Left for Architecture? The crisis of retail is not that people have stopped buying. The crisis is that architecture
Why the future of retail depends on architecture that acts as both media and community Online retail has perfected the disappearance of space. A product
For decades, much of retail architecture treated exposure as its highest virtue. Show the product.Accelerate the body.Remove hesitation.Convert attention into purchase. The store became a
Did you notice how similar many contemporary residential buildings have become? Especially the expensive ones. The same glass façades. The same thin frames. The same
This piece has nothing to do with running track design at first glance. The brief for Erie Sports Center, at its core, was simple: cover
Embracing Chaos: What a Singapore Food Court Taught Me About Design In 2014 I completed the Basement Food Court at 313@Somerset in Singapore. Ten years