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My antidote to social media's dead see scroll is a Substack newletter called The Received Image. Learn more here.MARCH 2026
Rebecca and I are back Ukraine for the next few months to do some teaching with the Lviv National Academy of Arts and the Kharkiv School of Architecture.
JAN 2026
I've returned to Greece this month to continue working on a project about the underpinnings, both mythic and literal, of the Iera Odós, a road that connects Athens to the Eleusinian Mysteries.
DEC 2025
Happy New Year.
NOV 2025
Moving to Europe studio clean-out sale is happening this week!
This month I travelled to my parents' home in Ontario to be at my dad's 90th birthday party. 3.4 billion heartbeats and counting!
OCT 2025
"Do This One Weird Trick to Make Great Art", an artist talk at the Estonian Academy of Art on Tuesday Oct 07, 15:00.
SEPT 2025
This fall I'm participating in two Baltic island residencies. One at AARK on Korpo in the Finnish archipelago, the second at Kordon on Hiiumaa off the western coast of Estonia.
JUNE 2025
It's not everyday one's work is exhibited in a Zürich solar observatory, but Reto Geiser made it happen with Under Construction at the Collegium Helvetium.
APRIL 2025
Another trip around the sun, another version of my 'Among Clouds' course. This time featuring a trip to the Tartu observatoorium.
FEBRUARY 2025
Researching in the library of the beautiful Huis Marseille museum in Amsterdam. Photobook motherlode.
Archetypes is featured on Profiler this month.
NOVEMBER 2024
First visit to Mies' Barcelona Pavilion, 1929/1986. I now get what all the fuss was about.
MAY 2024
APRIL 2024
My Among Clouds course was run at die Angewandte /University of Applied Arts in Vienna this month. The class concluded with a two day visit to Sonnblick in the Austrian alps, the highest, permanently staffed climate observation station in Europe.
FEBRURARY 2024
Presenting several lectures this week (02.05-08) for the Department of Architecture, University of Évora, Portual as part of the Instrumentos de Investigaçāo / Research Apparatas colloquium.
JANUARY 2024
01.01. 2024. Щасливого Нового року.
DECEMBER 2023
Travelling in Ukraine again for MFA thesis reviews and visits to several art, design and performing arts schools across the county. Images made at the Transcarpathian Art Institute in Uzhhorod.
December 04, 2023. First snow in Tartu, Estonia.OCTOBER 2023
Rebecca and I recently travelled to Ukraine under the auspices of the the UAx Platform, visiting several art schools across the north of the country. This week, at the Estonian Academy of Art, I'll be presenting some images and reflections from this astonishing trip in a lecture entitled "Seeking Shelter: A Tour of Art, Design and Performing Arts Schools in Ukraine Right Now".
JULY 2023
My annotated Ten Cloud Observations is now available in the current issue of Leida. Available in English or Estonian!
MAY 2023
Kunst Meran | Arte Merano, in the autonomous province of Bolzano, Italy, is now showing Mock-Up, Architectural Experiments at 1:1. On view until May 28th.
JANUARY 2023
This year I'll be teaching a course for the Estonian Academy of Arts called Among Clouds, comprised of a series of lectures and field trips oriented around the metaphorical, meteorological, and immaterial manifestations of clouds.
JANUARY 2023
Happy New Year!
DECEMBER 2022
Prep for an artist talk at EKA, December 7th.
NOVEMBER 2022
SEPTEMBER 2022
Linnahalle, Tallinn.
Heading to Tallinn, Estonia via cargo ship to guest lecture at EKA for a spell. See you there.
AUGUST 2022
If your Mandarin is up to scratch, be sure to check out Juanzong Books' recent article. The feature includes an overview of the history of mock-ups as well as an in-depth interiew with yours truly on the Archetypes project.
JUNE 2022
Archetypes has been honoured with an American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) 50 Best Books of 2021 Award! This time-honored competition identifies the 50 best-designed books and book covers of the year. Read more on the AIGA website
MAY 2022
Images from Archetypes are on view at SPAZIO in Milan, Italy until May 28th.
JANUARY 2022
Archetypes has been reviewed by Helen Thomas on Drawing Matter 's website.
DECEMBER 2021
Images from Archetypes are at Das Gelbe Haus Flims. Originating from the Swiss Architecture Museum, the DGHF version of MOCK-UP is on view until April 18, 2022.
SEPTEMBER 2021
Archetypes is on view at BALTSprojects in Zurich until September 25th.
AUGUST 2021
Archetypes is on view at the Swiss Architecture Gallery in Basel as part of the exhibition MOCK-UP. On view until October 31, 2021.
AUGUST 2021
Archetypes is on view at the Architekturgalerie Munich until Aug 16, 2021.
JULY 2021
Summer holidays. See you in August.
JULY 2021
Archetypes is on view at BALTSprojects in Zurich until September 26.
JULY 2021
Images from Crowd of Shadows are featured in the current edition of the journal Piéces.
JUNE 2021
I'm very excited to say that Archetypes is now available to order! Get your copy via Standpunkte, Park Books, or at your favourite bookstore.
From Standpunkte's website:
Archetypes is the first-ever photographic compilation of this type, reaching beyond a mere artistic record of building technologies and typologies. Instead, the book offers an effective platform to consider what it means to pre-construct fragments of buildings in all their complexity. Published alongside Ross’s images are four essays framing the historical, technological, and civic significance of the mock-up.
Edited by Reto Geiser.
With contributions by Sky Goodden, Ted Kesik, and Peter Sealy.
Designed by MG&Co.
Hardcover, cloth
39 illustrations in full color
21×28 cm
112 pages
FEB 2021
JAN 2021
Archetypes, designed by MG&Co. and published with Standpunkte and Park Books (Basel/Zurich) is now available for pre-ordering via Park Books if you are in Europe. The University of Chicago Press is distributing the book in North America. It is also available on Amazon.
JAN 2021
Two Archetypes images of Herzog & de Meuron mock-ups for the Kinderspital Zürich project are featured in the current issue of the Swiss architecture journal werk, bauen+wohnen.
DEC 2020
Images from A Crowd of Shadows are featured alongside a text by novelist, actor and playwright Gilbert Turp in VU galerie's on-line magazine "Éclaireurs"
JULY 2020
Helios, an excerpt from The Children of Kaos. Images from this series are to be published in issue 115 of Ciel Variable and will be accompanied by an extraordinary text by Jeanne Randolph.
JUNE 2020
Victoria's Secret, excerpt from Ste-Catherine, June 9th, 2020
MARCH 2020
FEBRUARY 2020
An amuse-bouche from a talk I'm giving at KPMB in Toronto this month on my Archetypes project.
The first image, by the French painter Pierre-Antoine Demachy (1723 -1807), depicts one of the earliest known renditions of a mock-up.
Built for the Parisian église Ste-Geneviève in 1764, the mock-up consisted of canvas erected over a wooden structure — foreshadowing Mies van der Rohe's mock-up (image 2) for the Kröller-Müller house museum (ca. 1912). Like Mies, Demachy also painted the actual canvas which formed the surface of the mock-up, though the painter had an advantage over the architect. Demachy was commissioned to complete this painting, a commemoration of the laying of the corner stone for the church, and by extension, of his own mock-up. Mies had be be content with some (not very good) photographs as documentation.
