Survey of Extraordinary Architectural Experiences (in progress)
Ongoing study aimed at collecting qualitative information about people’s most profound, lasting, and/or intense reactions toward architecture.
Writtings
A selected sample of paper abstracts addressing issues related to Architecture Live .
Sketches (gallery of samples)
Drawing is used as a phenomenological method to initialize, stabilize, appreciate, study, and record the experience of being present through architecture.
Architecture Live (book in progress)
The manuscript addresses the issues raised in this website. It inquires into the deep mental, emotional, and physical phenomenologies supporting our most profound experiences of architecture and place. The goal is to offer useful insights and new arguments for a better appreciation, conservation, design and planning of the built and natural environments.
Architectural, Culture and Spirituality (ACS) Forum
Launching an International scholarly/research forum composed of individuals interested in the relationship between architecture, culture and spirituality.
Voluntary Architectural Simplicity (VAS) Studio
VAS proposes a voluntary and critical architectural direction to resist the forces of today’s unconscious materialism, empty consumerism, unnecessary complexity, and life in the fast lane.
Great Architectural Experiences Course
This class examines meta-cognitive, affective, and representational methods enabling a phenomenological realization of architecture, self, and beyond.