Pierre Zebouni

Meditations

Short writings on architecture, faith and the making of places. New entries are added as they are written.

When Silence Is Introduced to Light

When silence is introduced to light, the interaction between the two creates a kind of ambient threshold, an experiential entrance to inspiration. A void makes a space of light and silence. Light reveals the void, and silence inhabits it. It is pure space.

Most rooms are full. The rare ones are empty in the right way, and those are the rooms people remember without knowing why.

The Small Figure

In every drawing I make there is a small human figure. Without it the drawing means nothing. Architecture exists so that life can take place: a wedding, a meal, a prayer, an ordinary morning. The measure of a space is not how it photographs but who people become inside it.