Social media in the recent past has distorted architecture as domain knowledge. Content consumed by most is a combination of second-hand opinions to learn skills and facts on various aspects of the construction industry. Who is an expert and what is the basis of their expertise is eroded on the…

I have 461 kindle e-books as of now. In the lot 6 are pdfs. 2 I have just written about, 3 I will get to in a bit and there is this one, the first pdf kindle e-book I purchased by mistake. It is a research project about form-making, drawn…

So they fixed the pdf and it looks nicer than how it was yesterday. I generally tend to go ♥ berserk on my feeds at least on Instagram and Facebook. Very generous I am with my 👍s. There is a pressing curiosity I have on how people get likes on…

This issue has taken a while to get from manuscript to store and I am a bit disappointed. My three years on Instagram didn’t make it in. I thought it was alright. I wouldn’t brood if the essays were better than mine but it is what it is. Feeds is…

The essay is developed from the prompt “Tell us about a death you’ve experienced, for better or worse, and how you marked the loss —…

Architects aren’t taught to write. There is no time for that. Five years are spent learning to draw and plan at different scales. How to…

The wall I sit in front of makes me think a lot. I don’t get very distracted here. It really needs some art, or a map or a whiteboard on it or I am told. A cognitive controller to either inspire or collect what I am working on or hope…

I wouldn’t want to call it journaling, but it is something I picked up along the way from conversations at the Roam Book Club. It is an attempt to commit to writing every day. Kate suggested this in the closing session of RBC4. Something of a particular length you produce…

The “Western” is no longer our exclusive domain. It is the first time in 3,000 years that architecture has a non-white avant-garde. Singapore Songlines, S.M.L.XL, PG. 1013, 1044 There are several avenues to probe Project Japan as a space of inquiry. In the context of these reviews OMAMO’s investigation about…