
2025 was a strong year, and I am looking forward to the challenges of 2026. My work continues to move across parallel issues related to architecture and the city. I have fully come to terms with the fact that making buildings is not the only project an architect can have. Architecture operates through ideas, positions, representations, and negotiations with broader cultural and political conditions.
If this year taught me anything, it is the value of extrapolation. Taking fragments, observations, images, or intuitions and pushing them into arguments that are sometimes coherent and sometimes not. That uncertainty is productive. It is part of thinking in public, part of testing ideas rather than resolving them too quickly.

I sketched more this year than I did in school. Drawing has become a meditative act, a way to clear mental space and recover focus, even if only for a few minutes. It is less about producing something finished and more about maintaining an attentional practice.
I want to return to writing in this blog, writing without constraints, as I did when I started it in 2003. I am still learning how to put ideas on paper. Narratives matter to me. They shape how we understand architecture, cities, and ourselves, and they make the world far more interesting.
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