Rotterdam, must all of your new buildings posses a cantilever?

I'm superficial. I love the forms of contemporary Dutch housing, but dislike the motley mashups that makeup their materiality.

I can't help but read these paintings as if they were plan views. Beware the architectural education.

A moment of architectural deja vu. Surely the rings that shroud my office are not a reference to Corbusier's?

The Marseille Cathedral was of little interest. I have little time for anything built before the 20th century.

There are many buildings that house museums. There are few buildings that are museums.

The informal complexities of the construction becoming the formal complexities of the cathedral becoming the aformal complexities of the city.

It's hard not to read into these leaves. Drawn during Gaudi's studies, their floral forms now sprout in stone as the Sagrada grows skyward.