We aspire for an architecture:

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that expresses its context and enhances it but that transposes its inhabitants out of context, into a new world

 

that offers possibilities to life but does not impose on it

 

that hosts the other arts and does not monopolize expression

 

that highlights the best of its culture but that allows culture to change

 

 

 

We like:

 

courtyards

 

bridges

 

the sky

 

olive trees

 

geography

 

horizontality

 

stone walls

 

writing on walls

 

Arabic calligraphy

 

the shade

 

the breeze

 

the color blue

 

 

 

We think of architecture as a spatial contract between citizens, clients, and inhabitants, present and future.

 

We think of the architect as the custodian of this contract.​​