I am back home, in Rio, and have made an architectonic-cinematographic collaboration with filmmaker Rogerio Boettger. The 5-hour film must be produced, shot and edited within a period of five hours.



The first film of the series was shot in Favela Santa Marta. This is a symbolic community in the heart of the Rio's affluent South Side where international figures such as Michael Jackson, Madonna, Alicia Keys, and Beyoncé among others have paid a visit. It has also been the canvas for many artists and home of the samba school Mocidade Unida do Santa Marta. The favela was 'pacified' by the military police in 2008 (UPP) and is now free of drug lords and thus open for tourism.

My dissertation for the final year of ARB/RIBA Part 1 architectural studies involved a very contemporary topic. It was entitled "Wikileaks and the Architecture of Data-Loss Paranoia" and done under the tutorship of Martin Parker and Richard Coyne. I am glad to say it has been nominated for the...

EUSAS, the Edinburgh University Student Architecture Society, has organised this past friday the ‘Open Studios Party’ in Minto House. It was a chance to celebrate the work of Year 4, MArch1 and MArch2, in a relaxed and sociable setting. The Gallery, Studios 3,4&5, Crit Rooms...

Last week, Unit 1 went to visit Siccar Point and Cockburnspath, Southeast Scotland. It was here, by investigating the unconformity of the rock formations, where James Hutton found evidence for his theory of Deep Time, and Geology was officially born as a scientific discipline. Although hard for us...

Back to Edinburgh and ready to work! This week we’ve moved into the studio and have been assigned our Design Units for the course Design Option 2 (DO2). There were three Units to chose from: ‘The Language of Stone’ by Dr Dagmar Motycka Weston, ‘The Architecture of...

Before heading back to Edinburgh, one of the great things I saw this Christmas holiday, while visiting a close friend and his welcoming family, was the daunting Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg. Not far from there, the Christmas Angel had already opened her market, the largest one of its kind...

Dear Archinect Community, I am currently undertaking the fourth year of the MA (Hon) program – ARB/RIBA Part I – at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. I’ve seen interesting things around the ‘School Blog Project’ and decided to share a bit of my own experience for...