This monograph explores the whole host of influences from Mies van der Rohe, to Richard Neutra, to Rafeal Moneo. Strong, and explicit, these outside references are both conscious and deliberate while simultaneously contradictory and perhaps even random. In his work Rahola revisits the places of architecture, among them, his own personal professional history, with a very personal gaze: that of the quiet man. Rahola's simplicity and sensitivity enable him to harmoniously incorporate an extensive repertoire of modern references with the indigenous vernacular of the traditional architecture of...