untitled, 2025

Books / People influencing the work:

  • Adjaye, David. Adjaye Africa Architecture: A Photographic Survey of Metropolitan Architecture. Edited by Peter Allison. London: Thames & Hudson, 2011.

  • Aldiss, Brian W. Earthworks. New York: Open Road Media, 2014.

  • Clottes, Jean. Cave Art. London: Phaidon Press, 2013.

  • Coverley, Merlin. Psychogeography. Harpenden: Oldcastle Books, 2018.

  • Damlūjī, Salma Samar, Viola Bertini, and Hassan Fathy. Hassan Fathy: Earth & Utopia. London: Laurence King, 2018.

  • Doczi, György. The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art, and Architecture. Boston: Shambhala, 2005.

  • Fathy, Hassan. Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

  • Fitz, Angelika, Elke Krasny, Marvi Mazhar, Craig Moffat, Harriet Thomas, Ammar Naeem, Aisha Ashfaq, Raquel Rolnik, Anne Karpf, Rabia Khan, Rafia Zakaria, and Camillo Cozza. Yasmeen Lari: Architecture for the Future. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023.

  • Flusser, Vilém, Rodrigo Maltez Novaes, and N. Katherine Hayles. Communicology: Mutations in Human Relations? Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023.

  • Ghosh, Amitav. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.

  • Huysmans, Joris-Karl. À Rebours [Against Nature]. 1884.

  • Kwon, Miwon. One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004.

  • Lawlor, Robert. Sacred Geometry. London: Thames and Hudson, 1997.

  • Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.

  • Mbembe, Achille, and Steven Corcoran. Necropolitics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019.

  • Nabokov, Peter, and Robert Easton. Native American Architecture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989

  • Pesic, Peter. Music and the Making of Modern Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022.

  • Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Man of the Crowd.” 1840.

  • Postman, Andrew, and Neil Postman. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. New York: Penguin Books, 2014.

  • Powers, Richard. The Overstory. New York: Penguin Books, 2024.

  • Purdy, Jedediah. After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.

  • Rael, Ronald. Earth Architecture. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009.

  • Romero, Orlando, and David Larkin. Adobe: Building and Living with Earth. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1994 

  • Solnit, Rebecca. A Field Guide to Getting Lost. New York: Penguin Books, 2018.

  • Tibbets, Joseph M. The Earthbuilders’ Encyclopedia: The Master Alphabetical Reference for Adobe & Rammed Earth. Bosque, NM: Southwest Solaradobe School, 2001.