Unbuilt Masterpiece: The Call Building

I recently contributed to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation’s quarterly magazine for a special issue on Wright’s high-rises, including the famous Mile-High Illinois. But one design always stood out for me: the beautiful Call Building A fellow Wright enthusiast, Theodore Zheng, a game art designer, reached out to me and after a quick email exchange,…

Four Dimensions Trinity Chapel

Recently I have been collaborating with the companies Unreal Engine and HP and now we can show you the Trinity Chapel in all his glory through Virtual Reality. It has been a very interesting experience to work on exporting my model from the original version that I created in 3dsMax and Vray to the Unreal…

Virtual Reality

Happy birthday Mr Wright! Marking the 150th anniversary of the American architect’s birth on June 8, 1867, public sites across the United States are celebrating Wright’s 150th birthday in a variety of creative ways, from dinners and concerts to late-night tours and special lectures, and a a major exhibition will take place in September at MOMA. 360…

E.A. Smith house in Oakland by Frank Lloyd Wright

This beautiful design for E.A. Smith unfortunately never came to be built.  As explained in Frank Lloyd Wright: The complete Works: The house for E.A. Smith, intended to be built in the northern pine forest of California, is a development of the fir-tree type cabin done for the Lake Tahoe Summer Colony in 1922. For…

Rebuild or not rebuild

There is a debate as old as architecture itself, related to the reconstruction of buildings destroyed as they were in their day. When it comes to authentic works of art, the problem is twofold. How to recreate a masterpiece knowing that it will never be identical to the original? In this context, my work joins…

Pauson house panoramas

I love panoramic images. I think they are very poetic and if there is a work that existed to be admired in this format, this work is the Pauson house. Panoramic images are especially appropriate when it comes to capturing the immensity of a natural landscape and the Arizona desert is no exception, with its rocky…