Some Kind, Any Kind

This book is a bifurcated journey through fifteen years of the architecture practice OODA, designed as a “dream state” inner dialogue between Some Kind of Romance and Any Kind of Existence: mirrored reflections of past and future projects that reflects the practice’s work and exploring path from Porto to the world.Read together, these two parts are less about buildings than about a way of being in the world, offering an open narrative where architecture is presented as if in a chronicle, a journal.In Albania, it traces a transformative engagement with urban regeneration and identity reconstruction in a context of rapid urban change.In Portugal, it explores continuity through both rehabilitation and new construction, treating time, heritage, and landscape as active materials.Together, these two dimensions reveal a practice shaped by persistence and risk, belonging and transformation, grounded in place yet open to reinvention.