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Letters to a Young Architect (Part I)

An Epistolary between Our Present & Future World

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This is part 1 of an ongoing correspondence between Jo Petroni, an architect & illustrator living in the south of France, & me, AKA “Titus,” an imaginary character living in a self-sustaining community somewhere off the grid.1

This entire exchange was inspired by Jo’s post, “Honorable Harvest.” While readers may prefer to think of this as a work of ficti…

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