[Originally published in Bauwelt #16.2022] When Spain imposed its nation-wide lockdown to prevent the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus on … More
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Overarching Craft
[Originally published in The Architectural Review July/August 2018] Matola, a hamlet in the semi-desert of the southeastern Spanish province of … More
Disappearing Act
[Originally published in Baumeister 9/2017] As the place where Ancient Greeks first set foot on the Iberian peninsula, the archaeological … More
Destination: Barcelona’s Renaissance Fira Hotel
[Originally published in Azure, May 2014] The elevator soars up the Hotel Renaissance Fira Barcelona, and my knees buckle beneath … More
Adam’s House in Paradise
The courtyard house may be ancient, but it is still contemporary and modern. This became apparent to me on a … More
Garden and Gaffe
Leon Battista Alberti famously wrote: “The city is like some large house and the house in turn like some small … More
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