Hamza Yaqoob

No one tells you that being an architect in 2025 is basically like being a single mom to a hyper-intelligent, overdramatic, tech-savvy teenager… who just happens to be a building. And not just any building. Oh no. She’s “smart. ” Which is code for emotionally unstable, passive-aggressive, overly self-aware, and…

Let’s imagine the world is ending — not the dramatic, meteor-screaming-down kind of ending. But something slower. Like a faucet that keeps dripping long after the pipes have burst. The temperature has shifted two degrees too far. Your groceries have doubled in price and halved in nutrition. The street lights…

Somewhere along the way, in the great architectural race to pierce the skies and kiss the clouds, we forgot one small thing: Mother Nature never signed off on the blueprints. And if you’ve noticed the earth rumbling lately, the winds howling a little louder, the oceans inching closer — well,…