It is in the wilderness of cities
rather than in nature that the imagination of these landscape drawings
comes to life. Without any heroic emphasis, these drawings result from
the observation of traces, evident or discreet, in the urban landscape,
and the process to collect and memorise traces is the way to consider
memory as a primary medium for creativity.


The selected collection
of over 150 drawings, thought and imagined over many years, delineates a
personal city experience, without any intention of building a new city
theory. No single drawing in this book is a representation of cities
in-situ; all of them are interpretations, translations, and combinations
of traces collected and selected while teaching, working, meeting
cultures, and eating food in many different cities around the world.
These drawings are a different form of communication than the beautiful
renderings produced in endless numbers.