About
About the author
Felipe Meneses Falconi is the author of The Architecture of Money and the maintainer of this site. He was born and raised in Ecuador and is based in Quito.
As a child he lived through Ecuador's 2000 dollarization—an unplanned monetary collapse in which the sucre, after 116 years in use, lost most of its value in months and was replaced by the U.S. dollar. Families lost their savings overnight. That experience precedes the theory in the book: monetary fragility was a fact about the world he encountered long before it became an object of study.
Trained as an engineer, he brings the analytical register that defines the book—systems, constraints, failure modes—rather than the framing of any particular school of monetary thought. The framework is interested in how things hold together and what makes them break, not in defending a doctrine.
About the project
This site is the companion to The Architecture of Money. It does two things: track the five markers from Appendix G with public, dated status updates that change only when underlying evidence warrants, and publish quarterly diagnostic essays applying the book's vocabulary to live monetary developments.
The scope is intentionally narrow. The site does what the book is best at—naming durable claims clearly and tracking whether their directional expectations hold up over time. It avoids what the book deliberately does not do: quantitative currency scoring, predictive precision about timing or magnitude, composite stress indices. Both the inclusions and the omissions are deliberate. See the methodology page for the reasoning.
Contact
Reach me at felipe@thearchitectureofmoney.com.