The Cemetery as a City

El Mercurio, VD June 1

A morbid headline floated nearly inconspicuously over a picturesque snapshot of Validivia on the cover of this Saturday’s VD: “Cementerios en Chile: El espiritú cultural de cada pueblo” [Cemeteries in Chile: The Cultural Spirit of Each Village]. Continue reading

An Afternoon in Ritoque

After a long journey I made it to the Open City Tuesday afternoon. Here’s an illustrated version of my walk through the grounds.

"Amereida" welcomes visitors at the entrance to the east side of the Open City, Ritoque, Chile

“Amereida” welcomes visitors at the entrance to the east side of the Open City, Ritoque, Chile.

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Open Cities

Monocle’s latest video features Central Saint Martins, a school of art and design in London, and their new campus by Stanton Williams. This project gets to the heart of what matters most to me as a researcher: architecture, pedagogy, and great design.

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It’s Research

Anyone who knows me and has been keeping up with my blog posts and tweets of late is probably mystified by the most improbably mystical turn I am taking. Outer space and the wilderness aren’t exactly things that come to mind when you meet me. Continue reading