How access to water, pools & streams can improve homes/towns by Nicolás Boullosa on April 21, 2022 Christopher Alexander states in #64 of his “pattern languages” for architecture and urbanism that “We need constant access to water, …
Our complicated relation with nature: a quest for biophilic homes by Nicolás Boullosa on April 13, 2022 Back in the summer of 2010, concerned about how drought and water scarcity were developing in California, we headed from …
Contextuality: the intricate bonds between things big & small by Nicolás Boullosa on April 6, 2022 German writer Hermann Hesse introduces Siddhartha to the reader as the son of a brahmin called to inherit his father’s …
Humanity’s playful, long-held passion for underground dwellings by Nicolás Boullosa on March 30, 2022 In Pain and Glory, Pedro Almodóvar’s autobiographical movie, we feel entitled to go back to the director’s idealized childhood. We …
The Shack: how a forester kickstarted restorative farmsteading by Nicolás Boullosa on March 23, 2022 “Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know-how. …
End of shop class, and what it means for (most-needed) manual trades by Nicolás Boullosa on March 16, 2022 In the summer of 2006, Mathew B. Crawford had the urge to explain what was happening to “shop class” across …
What urbanites seek in mountain valleys & periurban hamlets by Nicolás Boullosa on March 9, 2022 When a little over two weeks ago we embarked on a road trip, I did not know that crossing the …
What is left after war: Paul Celan at Todtnauberg by Nicolás Boullosa on February 28, 2022 “It feels like 1939,” commented Zvi to her neighbor, a 96-year-old Ukrainian who still remembers how European leaders had been …
On finding meaning & self-actualization in the little things by Nicolás Boullosa on February 16, 2022 As GenXers, we come from an era still defined by cinema, TV, and music hit lists blasted on the radio …
Why the consensus on facts, opinion & experience has weakened by Nicolás Boullosa on February 9, 2022 Internet “culture” relies on the activity taking place at its core or constellation of services and most engaged users. The …
