The Tropicalist

The modern metropolis: a heady cocktail of sex, technology and high finance, with an undertone of sewage.

The Generic City is a city free of context, history and identity. It is a blank slate, allowing its inhabitants to make of themselves what they will.

Drive through any Indian metropolis today and a strange sight might greet you as you look out your car window: spindly legs clad in…

Focusing on the needs of real cities, not world cities.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Paris is the most beautiful city in the world, but should we all be trying to copy it?

And you thought you were passionate about architecture.

Hong Kong was really a creation of Quanzhou.

Are autocratic regimes necessary to push through the changes we need to save our planet?

Sometimes less really is more.

For a new nation with few natural resources, the decision to build a zoo was a strange one.