On losing Frank Gehry, and remembering the decades he spent transforming material, space, and the future of architecture forever. When I woke up today I didn’t plan to write an obituary, I’ve never written one before. I’m still processing the news that Frank Gehry has passed away. For those of us obsessed with the builtContinue reading “Frank Gehry: The Architect Who Showed Us Movement in Architecture”
Category Archives: Modernism
Brutal Concrete: The Architectural Evolution of Piccadilly Plaza in Manchester
A deep dive into Manchester’s City Tower (originally Sunley House)—a brutalist landmark of concrete geometry, sculptural form, and evolving modernism.
Pilgrimage to the Soviet Ministry of Highways Headquartered in Tbilisi Georgia
Rising from the forested hills on the edge of Tbilisi, the Ministry of Highways feels less like a building and more like an idea made solid — a radical composition of concrete slabs suspended midair, stacked with impossible confidence. Designed in 1975, it embodies a moment when architecture aimed to float above the landscape, not dominate it. Seeing it in person, surrounded by trees and silence, the structure felt suspended in time — a relic of utopian ambition still clinging to the hillside.
NOMAD SKETCHBOOK 