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 that work like villages boost people’s 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 …
Lives in 14m2 bedroom-turned-apartment. Wears 40K tattoos by Kirsten Dirksen on April 24, 2022 Alfredo Meschi converted a 14m2 living room (150 square feet) into a home for only 2000 euros by using recycled …
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, …
Couple’s modern home behaves like an old village by the river by Kirsten Dirksen on April 17, 2022 Cristina Manene and Fernando Orte wanted a home to escape the city, but that would still provide reminders of village …
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 …
Oldtimer got wild rocky land, started NorCal off-grid Watertopia by Kirsten Dirksen on April 11, 2022 Dwight Streamfellow was a college junior when he bought a piece of cheap river-front land to start a homestead. He …
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 …
