Simplicity: lives dedicated to focusing on the fundamentals by Nicolás Boullosa on May 18, 2022 “Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, …
Slow architecture: houses that understand people and place by Nicolás Boullosa on May 11, 2022 Idleness and boredom are a type of lucidity experienced by those brave enough to confront themselves instead of filling their …
How Pocket Hoods behaving like villages boost wellbeing by Kirsten Dirksen on May 8, 2022 From agile neighborhoods for veterans or the unhoused to pocket hoods for Portlanders, the dozens of co-housing villages designed by …
Rural ghost towns: choice for urbanites in search of meaning by Nicolás Boullosa on May 4, 2022 Lev Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina principle states that all happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its …
They left for city. Offspring came back to restore farmstead by Kirsten Dirksen on May 1, 2022 It’s the story of millions of families who fled to cities for work generations ago, then feeling the call of …
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. …
