Tiny Texas Houses pioneer digs personal lake & crafts village around it by Kirsten Dirksen on June 2, 2024 When we first met Tiny Texas Houses’ founder Brad Kittel 10 years ago (watch the video of our first visit …
Dual role of wood in human history: a blessing & a curse by Nicolás Boullosa on May 30, 2024 Old wood-clad houses know how to age, drawing inspiration from ancient woodworking. But why does modernity feel uneasy with weathered …
Tiny lot, grand comfort: Skinny home + 2 yards as designer’s live-work oasis by Kirsten Dirksen on May 26, 2024 Landscape designer Molly Sedlacek was looking for an inspiring place to live and work in LA when she stumbled upon …
Embracing a third culture: our family’s journey from Europe to the US by Nicolás Boullosa on May 22, 2024 A reader asks how our acclimatization to life in America is going. Here’s an account of how we navigate education, …
Family got unbuildable lot. They raised rustic-modern masterpiece. by Kirsten Dirksen on May 19, 2024 John Lautner’s rustic-modern cabin, tucked away in the San Jacinto mountains outside LA, is an organic architecture classic example. In …
Designing homes that age well & adapt to life’s different stages by Nicolás Boullosa on May 15, 2024 From the sandwich generation to the boomerang generation, homes undergo makeovers that don’t seem aligned with life’s events. This can …
Turns stone barn into minimal hideaway with stealth furniture-rooms by Kirsten Dirksen on May 12, 2024 Africa Lao had spent her career designing homes from an office in Barcelona, so when she moved to the country …
Utopian progress & architecture of collapse: Bayocean, Futurism & The Line by Nicolás Boullosa on May 9, 2024 If there’s one thing shared by intense poets, self-made magnates, and big dignitaries, it’s their ambition to try to reach …
Full village living off land & craft like modern Amish: 350 families & growing by Kirsten Dirksen on May 5, 2024 In the heart of Texas, 1200 members of the Homestead Heritage community have spent the past 5 decades working the …
Why a lack of porosity in homes and urbanism is making people sick (studies) by Nicolás Boullosa on May 1, 2024 We like to think of ourselves as independent entities capable of forging our own paths. But we are born into …
