Journal
An Uplifting Message in Times of Darkness
“I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and materials as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.” — Louis Kahn, a great American architect. Background Story I had the …
What defines timeless design? I asked this question upon noticing a metallic turquoise-colored car in Moshe Safdie’s atrium at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. Eclipsing “your father’s Oldsmobile,” this objet-d’art was the 1963 Studebaker Avanti designed by famed industrial designer …
Learning from The Silk Road Ensemble: On a perfect summer evening, we were enveloped in the multisensory delights of Tanglewood, a renowned musical venue in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. Sitting on its famous lawn overlooking a lake and surrounding …
The inaugural WAFX prize at the World Architecture Festival has been awarded to Paul Lukez Architecture for a future urban infrastructure project titled “The Hydroelectric Canal.” The project addresses issues of rising sea levels and climate change by developing an …
At Paul Lukez Architecture, We stand for Peace. We stand for Black Lives Matter. Let us share a story with you. It is from another time and place, yet it is timely with today’s universal search for justice and peace …
Tents commonly used to hospitalize coronavirus victims are often designed for entirely different purposes, such as outdoor gatherings, weddings, and other special events. As such, they are not suitable for pandemic management practices. Therefore, the impending need to vaccinate more than 300 million people will create a massive demand for easy-to-access places where people can be tested and vaccinated in a safe environment.
Fighting COVID-19 is primarily a medical and public health challenge. However, the recent crisis in communities large and small highlights the need for temporary emergency shelters and structures to assist health professionals in their battle to overcome this virus. This …
Finding new inspiration in design to combat the current health crisis
To assist in social distancing, the Paul Lukez Architecture (PLA) office shifted to a remote access system to enable everyone to work from home. Since then, we have found our new routine to be our friend. We begin each week …
This post is part one in a series from Paul Lukez Architecture highlighting resilient cities’ future-proofing strategies.
Paul recently returned from a week-long trip to Guaimaca, Honduras. While he was there, he was able to snap some photos from the ongoing construction of Jenny’s Place. Visit the project page to see the full scope of the project. …
Located in Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou is a city of nine million and growing 100 miles southwest of Shanghai. It has a favorable location given its proximity to the ocean, a river delta, rich farmlands, and scenic hillsides. Its temperate climate …
The Ragon Institute was founded at MGH, MIT and Harvard with two goals. First, to contribute to an accelerated discovery of an HIV/AIDS vaccine and secondly, to serve as a world leader in the collaborative study of immunology. To that …
