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The Amenhotep III Temple/Colossi of Memnon project in Luxor, Egypt, is probably one of the largest and most ambitious archaeological and conservation projects of our time. Dr. Hourig Sourouzian and her team took on the almost impossible task to recover and piece together the huge statues of the pharaoh that once flanked the three gates of the temple.
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Bartolomeo Colleoni (1400–75) is far from a household name but his legacy was immortalized in a monumental equestrian statue found today in the Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice. To local Venetians, this is a very familiar spot as the Colleoni monument sits in front of the Basilica di Santi Giovanni e Paolo and the hospital of the same name.
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The 60 wooden churches project became very real all of a sudden when we were invited to take part in it as volunteers in the summer of 2012. Barely out of architecture university, a young, pretty inexperienced but enthusiastic bunch, we were sent to Boz and Târn?vi?a, two small villages in Hunedoara County, to supervise the emergency interventions on the roofs of two small wooden churches, without really knowing the places or their issues.
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April 16, 2014

Work in Progress

Those who travel in the southern area of the Carpatian Mountains can easy discover beautiful villages with small wooden churches spread throughout a scenic landscape. The life in these villages is changing, become modern, and so are also the houses. Small wooden construction are abandoned and destroyed.
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Since 2009, a very important project has been underway in Romania focusing on the conservation of 60 wooden churches in the center of the country. These wonderful structures are part of the national heritage. However, these countryside treasures could disappear entirely since their remote location and diminishing congregations has meant fewer resources to care for them.
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I had studied Mren for a long time before getting there. Mren is a famous Armenian church, constructed in the seventh century during the wars of the Byzantines, Persians, and Arabs. I knew it for its soaring architecture, sculpted reliefs, and precious historical inscriptions. But going to a place reveals so much more.
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The historic center of Dar es Salaam, which was included on the 2014 World Monuments Watch, is increasingly threatened by unscrupulous and uncontrolled development.The building known as “Light Corner” formed part of a coherent block of five historic structures from the period around 1900. Although the buildings formed a coherent block of historic structures, which is now rare in the city, they were not on the list of Dar es Salaam's legally protected buildings.
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March 19, 2014

Centro Casa Klumb

Casa Klumb is an architect’s residence, which isn’t a novel thing in itself, since an architect tends to desire to build his or her own house as a testament to his or her views on architecture, or as a laboratory in which to rehearse ideas.
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For a teenager in Jerusalem in the early 1980s, Battir was an inspiring short hike away to the outskirts of the dormant city. I recall following shepherds leading their herds between the neighborhoods through the open wadis, treading history alongside them.
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