Illustrated essays
Writings &
Reflections
A curated platform for writing on cities, architecture, memory, and democratic public space.
These illustrated essays grow from a single conviction: that cities change when we change the way we see them. Organised around four themes — Athens, Berlin, the Bauhaus, and cities in general — they invite readers to look at architecture and urban life with fresh eyes.
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Athens
Memory, modernity & urban identity
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Artificiel: an Everyday Material Symbol
The apartment block, known as polykatoikia, is something deeply Athenian and familiar to most of us. It is where we were born, grew up, and where many of us still live.
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Berlin
Division, reunion & urban transformation
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Alexanderplatz in the Mornings
Alexanderplatz, 7:30 a.m. One of the busiest areas in Berlin, with its large square, shopping centers, the major train station, and iconic landmarks such as the TV Tower and the Clock.
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Bauhaus
Legacy, reception & living modernism
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A Bauhaus "Agora"?
An ancient agora inside a Bauhaus museum? Unexpected — and entirely real. Nobody expects ancient Greece to show up in a Bauhaus museum. Nobody, until now.
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Cities
Public space, democracy & urban life
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On Lisbon. Part Three.
The physical wear on Lisbon's buildings doesn't read as a renovation waiting to happen — it reads as part of a building's natural evolution. The facades are old but tended.
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Why these
four themes
These are not separate subjects. They are four ways of asking the same question: how do we live together in cities, and what does architecture have to do with it?
The answer I keep returning to: cities change when we change the way we see them. Therefore, these texts are an invitation: to look at the cities we inhabit with fresh eyes, and to discover what architecture can tell us about who we are and how we can live better together.