"It’s extremely hard to prove, but also extremely hard to disprove:" Rolf Blakstad

Ibizology

In this episode you’re going to meet the architect Rolf Blakstad who has just published, in English, his father Ralph's amazing book which links traditional Ibizan finca design back more than 2000 years to the Phoenicians who settled here from what is now Lebanon. Rolf’s father spent decades roaming the island’s countryside, measuring, drawing and recording the architecture just as the forces of modernity were changing the island forever. The result is a book full of beautiful, detailed. Line drawings, photos and text demonstrating how it was identical to the archtecture he had seen in North Africa and the middle east.