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- Christopher Alexander

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“The world of images controls the world of matter.”
 - Christopher Alexander in The Timeless Way of Building


    Tropic of Charlie. Initially conceived as the lifestyle blog of an aspiring professional surfer, it quickly morphed into a romantic urban flaneur’s foray into finding place. It metastasized, albeit unpublished, as the incoherent ramblings of an urban typology taxonomist, who, disillusioned by the Disneyfication of urban design and flummoxed by the Formal-Post-Modern forms appropriated in the academy, set about exploring the dissonance between design intention and implementation. Tropic of Charlie has since emerged from architectural study with a blithe and bold optimism, as loosely located as it is defined: a place, yet to be built.

    Both the journey and the destination, Tropic of Charlie serves as a living manifest for the journey as Tropic of Charlie is made manifest. It is here that Charlie’s myriad interdisciplinary interests and extracurricular explorations are laid in bricolage. The brazen, acontextually plucked, quote above has become a working hypothesis, a modus operandi, as Charlie asks questions, produces images, posts blogs, and curates work that articulates this place: Tropic of Charlie.