Recovering lost knowledge: traditional practices for a safer future by Nicolás Boullosa on September 11, 2024 For decades, coastal areas in California like Rancho Palos Verdes didn’t improve drainage systems or reinforce slopes with deep-rooted vegetation …
How entire villages lived in just 1 building in remote Far North by Kirsten Dirksen on September 8, 2024 For thousands of years survival in Norway’s countryside, where farms were miles from each other, meant complete self-sufficiency. Farmsteads were …
Creation & self-actualization for artists, architects, & builders of all sorts by Nicolás Boullosa on September 4, 2024 Houses are square, and all that matters is functional, he was told. But James Hubbell had a different vision, building …
Family builds village of dugout homes into remote SoCal hill by Kirsten Dirksen on September 1, 2024 Homes are square, they said. Polymath artist James Hubbell built 100%-curvy Hobbit Village 🐚 In 1958, James and Anne Hubbell …
Business districts reinvented? Downtown LA from the 80s to now by Nicolás Boullosa on August 29, 2024 Unlike the backtothelanders from the 60s-70s, the 80s yuppies revered office work and lively downtowns. When the digital world upends …
The lot fit 9 McMansions. They built 44 small homes for locals instead by Kirsten Dirksen on August 25, 2024 Maggie and John Randolph kept losing employees priced out of the New Hampshire coast, so they got to support local …
Lifetime memories of tile designs —and a tile maker’s handmade house by Nicolás Boullosa on August 21, 2024 What’s the entropy of broken tiles? You can’t unbreak an egg, say the laws of thermodynamics. But you can recreate …
Guide to the Good Life from architect-farmer amid redwoods: 55 years off-grid by Kirsten Dirksen on August 19, 2024 At age 92, after 55 years living off the land, Charles Bello still spends long days growing his own food …
Escape from Non-Place: travelers that manage to see through modernity by Nicolás Boullosa on August 14, 2024 Many have argued that travel doesn’t equal tourism, especially today. Travel has a purpose and intention for self-discovery, whereas tourism …
Family wraps homestead in greenhouse to warm up & grow food all year by Nicolás Boullosa on August 11, 2024 When Margit-Kristine Solibakke Klev, an architect working near the Norwegian town of Kongsberg, decided to design a home for her …
