Architecture · Civilization · Faith · Ideas
The 3DEPICS Journal
Contemporary epics by Imad Darouich, from 3DEPICS Studio in New York: short reads on the people, places and ideas behind the library. Each essay leads to the full epic.
Topics
Architects
The lives and ideas of the architects who shaped the modern world.
6 essays
Buildings & Cities
Landmarks, streets and cities, from Damascus to New York.
28 essays
Faith & Spirit
Prophets, sacred places and the spiritual side of building.
18 essays
Literature & Art
Poetry, plays and great works of literature, read anew.
16 essays
Ideas & Philosophy
The books and ideas behind architecture and the city.
27 essays
The Human Story
Love, memory, exile and the inner life of people today.
17 essays
Latest
Ideas & Philosophy
The Epic of Intelligence and Beauty
Between a pencil and an algorithm, a professor and his student put beauty itself on trial.
July 20, 2026
Buildings & Cities
A Building Permit Signed by the Void: The Marota City Tower
Imad reads the great void at the top of a new Marota City tower as the part of the building that matters most.
July 16, 2026
Buildings & Cities
The Life and Mind Building: Where Ideas Learned to Build Themselves
In Oxford, Imad saw a building that seemed less like a building than a brain growing out of the earth.
July 16, 2026
Buildings & Cities
The Museum the Earth Dreamed
In Budapest the park opened like a mother's hand and a museum rose out of it, with grass walking overhead.
July 16, 2026
Buildings & Cities
Crossrail Place: The Cathedral of Motion
At Canary Wharf, a building of glass and steel asked Imad to enter it with his soul rather than his eyes.
July 16, 2026
Faith & Spirit
The Mosque: Built Between Earth and Heaven
The first mosques in America were storefronts, factories and homes, because the qibla needs a heart more than a palace.
July 12, 2026
Literature & Art
Between the Lion and the Rooster: A Surreal Football Poem
A lion and a rooster meet in a stadium that dissolves, until no one is sure the match was ever played.
July 10, 2026
Faith & Spirit
Provision Comes from Where We Least Expect
A young man without a ticket never noticed the star beside him; he was counting his breaths, and God sent his provision anyway.
July 9, 2026
The Human Story
Migrants in the Mediterranean
An overloaded boat, a last message for help, and a child's shoe on the sand that testifies for its owner.
July 9, 2026
Buildings & Cities
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles: A Building That Became Music
Frank Gehry's hall in Los Angeles reads as a question forged from steel, a building that woke one morning as music.
July 9, 2026