Luxury. The timeless elegance of the essential.
by Thomas Allocca _ March 2017
Sacred architecture is not just the one of gods, but any building where the elusive becomes a perceivable sublime.
by Thomas Allocca _ April 2017
Just two are the kind of architecture I like to distinguish. The noicy one, and the one that whispers. Sustainibility and unsustainability of architecture should be considered, first of all, according to its capability of whispering to Nature.
by Thomas Allocca _ June 2017
Quality and beauty are not a matter of money, but of sacred sense for ancestral harmony.
by Thomas Allocca _ April 2018
Only bad-built houses kill people. Earthquakes can only invite the good ones to dance.
by Thomas Allocca _ December 2018
Where Our Awareness Borns
There is a place in our life, in everyone's life, where for the first time, or more than any other time, we experience the awareness of who we really are and what we were born for. This place is always associated to a forest or a wooden house.
by Thomas Allocca _ March 2019
The truth is never told in a loud voice. It doesn't need to shout. How beautiful and true is the architecture when it tells of silence.
by Thomas Allocca _ March 2020
When my creativity has no more solutions, I go out in the woods, and it is there that I find them.
by Thomas Allocca _ October 2021
Anything deprives architecture of the sense of limit, it deprives us of the sacred beauty of the ancestral harmony. Skyscrapers do it more than anything else.
by Thomas Allocca _ October 2023
Whatever religion and god we feel to belong to, what makes our lives sacred is the way we take care of the timeless beauty of the essential, of the sacred archetypes, protecting them from the human ego that tends towards the unnecessary. The more architecture is built on the unessential, the less it tells of our divine origin, but ego.
by Thomas Allocca _ June 2024
Until sustainability will just define the acceptable limits of our abuse on Nature, architecture will continue to produce sustainable abuses with concrete and plastics, considering wood as an alternative, not the solution.
by Thomas Allocca _ September 2024
There isn't any question in architecture that cannot be answered with a wooden solution, and most of times it comes from a medieval archetype.
by Thomas Allocca _ December 2024
The prosperity of a people is measured by their curiosity for knowledge, not by the fear of the truth, nor by the ability to alter it. And we can recognize it by its architecture. Healthy, from curiosity and truth. Sick, from fear and alteration.
by Thomas Allocca _ March 2025
There is no change from just desire. There is no flight in just dreaming to go higher. There is no noble life in just telling of peace, without acting, without being knights of beauty, shields of coherence, rune stones on which to carve stories of honor. Sometimes it's easy, like singing in a choir, almost impossible when we need to turn water into fire. But we come from gods, we were made for miracles. Without any threshold between ours and their spirits, all we need is just dare, dare beyond, beyond our human limits. And so architecture should be, daring human limits for telling noble stories of honor, of sacred beauty, of gods, not of ego and merchants, but knights.
by Thomas Allocca _ July 2025
