There are times when you are home to yourself and you long for company.
On a recent trip to Zurich, I spent a great deal of my spare time checking out new housing developments that share some features: They are located just west of the city (in the Albisrieden and Friesenberg areas); they have multiple buildings placed across designed landscapes, construction around the Garden City ideas of the middle…
There’s this story about the building of the Taj Mahal. It appears that Shah Jahan not only constructed a white palace for Mumtaz Mahal, but he also was constructing a black one as his final resting spot. As the story goes, structure of the shameful one ceased when Shah Jahan’s son took charge and imprisoned…
I feel that domestic life previously was smelly, cold, dirty and embarrassing — but that we have much to learn from analyzing it. I usually spend my times in historic buildings, indeed in Britain’s grand historic royal palaces, where I act as a curator. In recent years, though (exploring If Walls Could Talk: A Thorough…
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