Tinkering with post-industrial scraps to innovate in housing by Nicolás Boullosa on June 1, 2022 Thomas Edison defined discontent as the first necessity of progress. Optimism and progress are naïve constructions of non-conformists who believe …
Their RV wasn’t up to code. Built Invisible Home instead by Kirsten Dirksen on May 28, 2022 Film producers Chris and Roberta Hanley (American Psycho, Virgin Suicides) dropped a tiny prefab onto their Joshua Tree land to …
Guerrillas improving cities: intentional, bottom-up urbanism by Nicolás Boullosa on May 26, 2022 As we grow up, those who manage not to fall for cynicism and good ol’ fatalism realize that the things …
Turned abandoned Alpine farm into low-budget Herbal Homestead by Kirsten Dirksen on May 22, 2022 Michelle Dresing had long dreamed of moving to the countryside where she could collect the herbs for her natural skin …
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, …
People left cave homes. He restored ancestors’ underground town by Kirsten Dirksen on May 15, 2022 Rubén Mendi is a giant pumpkin grower who has consistently broken world records, holding several of the heaviest, most gorgeous specimens …
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 …
