The person behind
the questions

I'm Yahya, a Moroccan architecture student living in Istanbul. This journal is a place for the questions that follow me beyond the studio: how to live with others, what makes somewhere feel like home, and why certain ordinary moments stay with us.

Architecture has made me attentive to thresholds, pauses, and the distance between an idea and the way it is lived. I want to bring that same attention to writing. A reflection can be a room in which a thought has enough space to change.

These pages are an invitation to think alongside me. Some pieces begin with a book or a building; others begin with a conversation, a walk, or a small discomfort I cannot quite explain. I do not promise a finished philosophy. I promise to take the questions seriously.

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Read at your own pace. Disagree with care. There is room for more than one way of seeing.