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
Builders of the Beginning: A Poem About the Dawn of Civilization
Before kingdoms, armies and borders there was a small village dreaming of a distant future, and its children are still building.
June 19, 2026
Ideas & Philosophy
The Fig That Lost the Court Inside Its Dome
Imad walks into a fig and finds a city of domes, a strange judge and a charge he cannot deny: he forgot how to wonder.
June 17, 2026
The Human Story
The Epic of the Syrian Countryside Between Ghouta and New York
A son of the Syrian countryside lives an American life in New York, but his voice still comes from the trees of Ghouta.
June 16, 2026
Buildings & Cities
The Epic of Hassan Khalouf Al-Sabbagh: When a House Returned to Time
A photograph taken by the Euphrates in 1925 travels to Berlin and back, and a grandson finds his grandfather standing at his door.
June 16, 2026
Ideas & Philosophy
The Architect Who Swallowed a Galaxy
A city model on Imad's screen grows from Damascus to Andromeda, until it swallows the galaxy, or the galaxy swallows him.
June 16, 2026
Ideas & Philosophy
The City That Lived Inside the Architect's Head
Vitruvius wakes him, Le Corbusier knocks down half the house and Zaha Hadid melts the straight lines, all inside one head.
June 15, 2026
Literature & Art
Nizar: The Last Musician of Jasmine
Nizar arrives as a melody, opens a small suitcase and lets Damascus step out with its alleys and jasmine.
June 14, 2026
Faith & Spirit
The Epic of Relief Hidden Behind Closed Doors
A consolation for anyone who thinks the road has ended: every hardship hides an ease that has not yet appeared.
June 14, 2026
The Human Story
A Letter from the Year 3000
A grandson writing from the year 3000 asks his ancestor what our age could never explain to itself.
June 13, 2026
Ideas & Philosophy
The Trial of the Twenty-Second Century
History will not judge our palaces, towers or inventions, only what we did to the weak and to the truth.
June 13, 2026