Home is the open water, the open globe, like the crab in the ocean, it knows everything as home. It's mere existence is reason enough for having a home and we are all living in it.

Architecture is the intersection of society. Architecture can be creative beyond just the physical, transcending the walls, to unite, bridge, and connect the threads of society that work towards solving meaningful problems.

Kabul, Afghanistan was a flourishing city before the Soviet Invasion in 1979. The destruction of the city during the Civil War, in 1992, left Kabul barren and in rubble. A newly established Afghan Government, in 2002, began absorbing a building boom driven by a flood of international development aid. Over the past 15 years, this overflow has morphed the face of the city into something unrecognizable.

“There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.” - Nietzsche

The man, whom has ridden the contemporary pulse of architecture, has endeavored to propose a project under the name of humanity. Norman Foster has proposed a drone airport to bring supplies to remote areas of Africa lacking basic roads and infrastructure.

It’s been close to 15 years since American military forces, in 2001, attacked Afghan soil in a war to remove the Taliban from political control in Afghanistan. The United States Government fought to gain control over the Afghan Government and appealed to the interests of several prominent Afghan tribal leaders in an attempt to establish a new Afghan Government.

Wake up to uncertainty or let uncertainty wake you up. Push your limitations, get dirty, don’t give up to that perfectly designed box….

My head has been buried in the field of a war torn country for the past 4 - 1/2 years. I was an architect working within a developing NGO community in Kabul, Afghanistan. At the beginning, I arrived as an Architect that felt trapped in the life surrounded by a world-wide sea of creative-smart individuals absorbed and defined by a capitalistic“ show us what your made of ” market.