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Who Defines “Great” Architecture? Photo by  Kirk Thornton  on  Unsplash This blog post was born when I went on a birthday road trip to visit Fallingwater. When we talk about the greatest architects, the same names tend to appear—whether in school, studios, conversations, or casual discussions with designers and principals. Frank Lloyd Wright. Le Corbusier. Mies van der Rohe. They are presented not just as influential figures, but as the foundation of architecture itself. Their work becomes the reference point. The standard. The implicit definition of what architecture should be. But here’s the question: Who decided that? Architectural history, like any history, is not neutral. It is curated—shaped by institutions, publications, schools, and the voices that had the power to document and distribute ideas. Over time, certain narratives solidify, not necessarily because they are the only ones, but because they are the most repeated. And repetition creates authority. Photo by ...

Photo by Maarten Deckers on Unsplash What is Architecture? A Hello World Introduction Is architecture an art form… or just a building? That question sits at the center of this blog. Not as something to answer once, but something to return to—again and again—from different angles, experiences, and ideas. This space is an exploration. An exploration of architecture through form, through software, through lessons learned (and sometimes unlearned). It’s a place where concepts are not just discussed, but tested—pulled apart, simplified, and rebuilt in ways that make them easier to understand and harder to forget. Because one of the biggest gaps in architecture isn’t creativity—it’s clarity. If a concept can’t be explained, does it really exist? Or is it just something we convince ourselves we understand? Here, the goal is to challenge that. Some posts will focus on fundamentals. Others will move into more advanced ideas. There will be experiments with digital tools, breakdowns of design th...