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In the early days of my work together with James Rojas, our clients were mainly in large coastal cities. Some of this had to do with our starting point, Los Angeles. We had the most professional and ...

A family sits on their stoop in the seaside village of Laukanu, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.

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Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the greatest architects in history, and he’d tell you so himself. The man in the cape and porkpie hat had an ego as big as any of his buildings, but as they say: If it’s ...

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When I was an architecture student in 1980s Vienna, I stumbled into an experience so profound that it has guided my career and professional outlook to this day. I spent a summer working with Geoffrey ...

There is an astonishing degree of complexity, order, and beauty in the natural world. Even so, and especially within the realm of living things, nothing is more complex than it needs to be to sustain ...