^ Image Source 1324a5 It remains to discuss whether the happiness of the city is the same as that of the individual, or different....

^Crossing Pier showing the contrast before and after restoration "Two kinds of nostalgia are not absolute types, but rather ten...

Beauty is anything, made or found, which without practical actions, can momentarily alleviate the dead weight of reality from an observer. ...

I never managed to be a believer because my rabbi couldn’t answer the simple question why? ‘How’ he could answer: always ‘what’, and ‘how’....

^Stanley Tigerman, Daisy House, 1976 As long as humans have built societies, there have been representations of the male reproductiv...

^ Cast Courts at the Victoria & Albert Museum ( source ) Aside from qualified usage in fine-art contexts, copying is generally ...

^Ideal City, school of Piero della Francesca In dialogue with Glaucon in Plato's republic, Socrates defends his 'reasonable...

This is a poem of mine that was published in the July 2014 edition of the biannual  Brittle Star Magazine Please see the bottom of thi...

Pure sand, how did you accumulate, impalpable. your divided grain and sea belt, cup of the world, planetary petal? Were ...

A poem written as part of a film for a project exploring the allure of symbolic and open-ended architectural form. The full film HERE  ...

Extract from p135 of the 2013 Penguin translation by Lara Gochin Raffaelli of Gabriele D'annunzio's 'Il Piacere' The ...

^Still from Cadbury Flake Advert, 1992 Extract from p88 of the 2013 Penguin translation by Lara Gochin Raffaelli of Gabriele D'a...

^Massimo Scolari, Study Sketches for Invisible Cities, 1976-79 “In the design process, the imprecision of the sketch and digital pr...

god almighty god inconsolable bird-legged god long-eared god short-tailed god take me into the kennel askew into the freight tra...

^Il Bagno Blu in D'annunzio 's Vittoriale . An extreme illustration of the points below. Two extracts from the collection of ...

^Nazi Rally The text below is part of the incendiary introduction to Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones . It lays out a brilliant ...

Pink Cloud. Pink. Cloud. Cloudy. Pinklike. ish. Bright Faded Cloud. Light, Pink Pure. Terror. ............................................

We don’t have a door, there’s just a gap, very narrow and quite deep. In fact it’s so tight that it presses against your chest as you ...

^Charles Moore Foundation interior (Living Room) "If (as the philosophers maintain) the city is like some large house, and the h...

Everything is filled with you, and everything is filled with me: the towns are full, just as the cemeteries are full of you, all t...

^V1 Rocket Damage in Antwerp 1944 “I live with my body in danger as regards menacing machines as well as manageable instruments. My b...

^The Great Lawn, Central Park, in Spring < source > In expectation of Spring, new things and old, here is an extract from Teju Col...