​​Enclosures is Gil Even-Tsur’s book of meditation, a prayer book of sorts, or what the spiritual exercises (exercices spirituels) of a practicing architect might look like.

Probing his emotional relationship to​ ​space (including the spaces he creates),​ ​approaching the mysterious interaction​ ​of the material and the ethereal, taking​ ​stock of the habits of inhabitation, Even-Tsur ventures an at times melancholic,​ ​at other times frolicsome, experiment in​ ​cross-medial expression. 

Here the architect​ ​ponders the pleasures of enclosure through word and image, leaving tracing paper and​ ​protractor behind. Unintentionally, he also shows us how enclosures frame the
world beyond him, and thus invites us into​ ​our own meta-meditations. 

Striking for a​ ​contemporary architect who builds things—and teaches others how to do the same—he​ ​doesn’t make a pretense of wanting to work​ ​with form, or to change the world; he seeks​ ​something much less ambitious, and yet​ ​sufficiently elemental that his apparently​ ​personal project implicates us all. 

At first​ ​glance, and indeed upon further reflection,​ ​Enclosures may not be recognized as a book
of architecture, but it is, we could say, a​ ​book for architecture.