If my first visit to Venice was a triumph of style over substance (see my post on the Biennale), then my second was just the opposite: a complete displacement...

Through a stroke of luck, I was able to sit down with one of the members of Collectif Etc during my visit to Paris. This group (or collective, to be precise)...

It is safe to say that I had an unusual visit to Paris, at least from a touristic standpoint; I never saw the Eiffel Tower, except from afar; I spent scant time...

Upon leaving Berlin (leaving? what about what happened in Berlin?)*, I embarked on a face-bending six-week tour of some new corners of Europa. The first and...

Hands down, bar none, sports metaphor, etc., having the chance to visit with Sou Fujimoto is one of the highlights of my trip to date. He met me at the door,...

Tempelhof Field sits comfortably at the apex of the lengthy (and frequently surreal) list of Berlin's leftover, vacant, abandoned and forgotten spaces. A...

Images from the latter half of my time in Japan, which included a series of strange architectural pilgrimages (one of which is covered in depth here). In the...

A few weeks before I left Tokyo, I was fortunate enough to have the chance to spend some time speaking with Kengo Kuma. In addition to being (in my totally...

A little over a week before I left Japan, I sallied forth from the Tokyo metropolitan area. My objective? The Teshima Museum, by Ryue Nishizawa, one half of the...

Selections from my first two weeks in Tokyo. Looking at them now, I can see my 'nightscapes' fascination (covered more extensively here) growing over the...

Tokyo is full. Its ground is full of buildings, its streets are full of cars, its buildings are tall and full of people - as are its trains, stations, sidewalks,...

A handful of favorite images from my week in Seoul - easily one of the most intriguing cities I've ever visited. It felt to me, encountering it for the first...

Last week I had the chance to sit down with Jun Aoki, marking the first of many interviews that I hope to conduct with firms and individuals whose work I...

In a bid to reduce the portion of this blog's content composed of theoretical hot air - sorry, ruminations - (currently hovering close to 100%), I present the...

Vendors, mercados and tianguis have been at the core of my investigations here in Mexico City; the Tuesday tianguis on Pachuca Street near my house is both the...

The space of a tactic is the space of the other. Thus it must play on and with a terrain imposed on it and organized by the law of a foreign power. ...it operates...

I suggested in my last (first) post that I was looking at the concept of hacking as a way forward in my research - a possible mission statement for a project...

Without restating my project proposal (which can be found in its entirety here), I thought that a good place to start this blog would be at the beginning. This...

These three images are part of the final product from my (super strange) architecture studio last semester; they were produced for the "id" portion of the...