Are Architects Lying to Us?
If I called architects “liars,” how would you react?Some of you might reject it immediately. Others might pause and think. When I began writing Design Beyond Form, it came from a troubling realization: our world is flooded with meticulously crafted visuals—polished images, cinematic renderings, seductive forms—pushed into our feeds every single day. They’re uploaded, shared, […]
The Cost of Flammable Façades
I watched the fire climb the façade—flames shooting upward and even downward as burning debris fell, setting off new fires on the floors below. It wasn’t random. Fires like this follow a path. That path is built into the materials themselves. As architects, we know that when fire behaves like this, it’s usually because the […]