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On Open Plans

An essay collecting twentieth-century plans where rooms are not named. What does a building owe its future inhabitants?

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An ongoing essay, written in chapters, on the history of the unlabeled plan. From Lina Bo Bardi to Lacaton & Vassal, we trace a quiet tradition of architectural reticence.

The text will be published as a small book in late 2025, accompanied by twenty redrawn plans at a single shared scale.

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