Rest of world architectural (reading) guide

My architecture writing heyday between 2012-2015 was the pre-kids period when I was traveling a lot more than today. Some of the following posts thus have a little travelogue ring to them. With Tokyo and North America done, let’s take the remaining buildings geographically, and go on a little tour down memory lane to Latin America (mainly Argentina, but also Brazil), Europe (mainly Germany, but also London and some other places), Africa, and Asia. What is missing in all this is a post from my current whereabouts, Australia. In what time I have left here, I shall strive to find that one tell-all building, seeking inspiration in the following pages.

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North America architectural (reading) guide

In what feels like half an eternity away, I lived in the States for two years from 2013-2015. Having caught the architecture bug in Tokyo before, I set out to explore the places I lived in and traveled to with an eye for important buildings and their stories. There is probably no better place in the world to satisfy these passions than New York. During countless rectilinear walks, I tried to learn about the city via its architecture. I did so from our base in Harlem, which then became the blog’s mainstay for a while.

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