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In Excavated, G.F. Zaimis shapes her debut collection with architecture built to stand the test of time. Classically contemporary, the poetry is designed with Vitruvian principles that imbue architecture as language and letters while uniting established poetic convention. Her sonnets resonate while her "dramatic voice and verse" reveal her nuance of new shape and form as seen through the Portico Convention. Reminiscent of archaeology, her poetry excavates ideas from an illustrious past of mythology, philosophy, reality and mental photographs. Her text-tile used to integrate poetic shape with architectural methodology. Excavated is a celebration of architecture, language and history from Athens to Alexandria, the birth place of the modern world. Here antiquity and contemporary explore fragments extracted from the monumental to minimal and Doric order to the Chester drawer while revealing a continuum of architecture as a connective matrix uniting the arts and sciences.

Typed transcript (incomplete) of audio tape, with manuscript corrections.