Post-rumination: how a writer & a songwriter overcame depression by Nicolás Boullosa on September 20, 2023 Less known than the current enfant terrible of French literature Michel Houellebecq, writer Emmanuel Carrère published an engaging yet painful …
Home alone in Gotham: when all you can afford is tiny dwellings by Kirsten Dirksen on September 17, 2023 How prohibitive is it to live solo in NYC today vs. 20 years ago? As remote work & high prices …
What a solar installation boom tells about a multipolar world by Nicolás Boullosa on September 14, 2023 New laws and incentives are finally promoting large-scale residential solar installation to produce, store, and resell power back to the …
Housing crisis + plastic overflow = prefab made of used bottles by Kirsten Dirksen on September 10, 2023 Could two separate events, the housing crisis & plastic pollution, converge in a project to build homes? One LA-based startup …
Wright Brothers to Ivo Zdarsky: Nature of makeshift aviation by Nicolás Boullosa on September 7, 2023 British historian and essayist Peter Frankopan opens his recent book The Earth Transformed (an attempt to write about the human …
Granny felt lonely. Her new backyard home has her relatives knocking by Kirsten Dirksen on September 3, 2023 Alice Marozas had been living alone in a 5-bedroom home since the death of her husband 7 years earlier when …
In a year of extreme weather events, past cataclysms help learn by Nicolás Boullosa on August 30, 2023 The Perito Moreno Glacier dam rupture is a recurrent partial collapse over the Brazo Rico and Brazo Sur branches of …
Steep lot was unbuildable. He raised retro-futuristic home over lake by Kirsten Dirksen on August 27, 2023 Robert Oshatz believes a house should fit the land and its residents, so his homes are all a bit fantastic. …
Going barefoot can improve mood & health (like forest bathing) by Nicolás Boullosa on August 23, 2023 When Patti Smith released “Dancing Barefoot” as the second single of her album “Wave,” she was onto something. She dedicated …
From D-Day to Bohemian houseboat: life in WWII Normandy landing craft by Kirsten Dirksen on August 21, 2023 World War II saw the quick development of amphibious boats capable of landing on shallow waters to allow quick deployments …