Down with High-Rise, Up with Mid-Rise

From 2005 to 2013, I taught a seminar in the Metropolis Masters Program in Architecture and Urban Culture titled “LandSpec” … More

Everyday Camouflage in Suburbia

[Originally published in Bauwelt 9.2024] The suburban single-family house has long been promoted as the ideal residential building type; as … More

When my parents retired around 20 years ago, they decided to move to Seville, my father’s hometown. Since they were … More

As an architect who is blessed with having double citizenship –Spanish as well as Canadian– I was quite amused, while … More

The other day, out of the blue, my printer suddenly stalled, even though it had been working perfectly for once. Strange warning … More

I recently had the pleasure of visiting Malmö, Sweden; best known –in terms of contemporary architecture– for its Santiago Caltrava-designed … More

We’ve all seen that famous aerial photograph of an American Southwest suburb in which each and every house has a … More

[Originally published in Mark Magazine #22] Granada, the medieval seat of the Nasrid dynasty, whose rulers built the Alhambra, is … More

Any voyage from an airport to a city centre proves that urban peripheries the world over relate more to each … More

“Non-places are the real measure of our time; one that could be quantified…by totaling all the air, rail and motorway … More

The World Waterpark at West Edmonton Mall is a vast steel and glass-vaulted tropical microclimate in the middle of that … More