The Temple Architect
Set across France, Mexico, and 1987 Austin, The Temple Architect follows Gabriel Madrigal, a brilliant but fractured architect who returns home carrying sketches and ideas tied to a lost architectural theory.
Working in a paint-stained East Austin studio, he attempts to rebuild the manuscript while the city around him tightens with quiet suspicion. When Laia returns with warnings that someone inside the university is watching him, Gabriel refuses to believe her, until the threat finally closes in.
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Brian Kryszewski de YbarrondoWriter
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Project Type:Screenplay
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Number of Pages:75
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Language:English
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First-time Screenwriter:Yes
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Student Project:No
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The Monthly Film Festival TMFF.NetUK - Scotland
Quarterfinalist -
Cannes World Film FestivalCannes, France
Semifinalist
Brian Kryszewski de Ybarrondo is a Texas-based author and storyteller whose work explores the intersection of technology, spirituality, and cultural memory. His writing blends emotional realism with speculative insight, often examining how belief systems, ancestral narratives, and emerging ideas shape identity and human connection. Through his imprint, Legacy Publishing Agency LLC, and its creative studio, Legacy Studio Originals, he develops projects that span historical fiction, futurism, and spiritually introspective storytelling. His work frequently centers on the unseen forces, cultural, emotional, and metaphysical, that influence the way we understand place, purpose, and lineage. The Temple Architect is his debut feature screenplay.
I wrote The Temple Architect as a way to explore the echoes that move through ancestry, belief, and place. Growing up in Texas with deep Mexican roots, I became aware early on that stories don’t just come from people, they come from land, from churches, from cities, from the spaces we inherit. Austin in 1987 was full of those echoes.
This screenplay is about a man who discovers that what he’s studying academically is connected to him personally. Gabriel’s journey mirrors the questions many of us carry: What have we inherited? What have we forgotten? And what happens when the past refuses to stay buried?
Through sound, resonance, and the architecture of memory, the story examines how identity is shaped not only by culture but by the structures, physical and emotional, that hold our lives together. Ultimately, The Temple Architect is about awakening: to truth, to lineage, and to the responsibility of carrying forward what resonates within us.
