The kore car & the terracotta soap dish: humble objects we attach meaning to by Nicolás Boullosa on September 26, 2026 A 30-second drawing at Back-to-School Night, a ceramics studio, and the broken roof tiles that followed us from Barcelona to …
Copenhagen in July: notes from a borrowed apartment in the world’s happiest city by Nicolás Boullosa on July 31, 2026 Rankings keep crowning the Danish capital. A few days there recently, sleeping among somebody else’s books, suggested the secret is …
World Cup, now and then: the windows-down summer, Europoors & the game by Nicolás Boullosa on July 1, 2026 A World Cup in the backyard, a heat wave back home, and the transatlantic quarrel over who gets to be …
The slow way will grow in value: doing the thinking, not the carrying by Nicolás Boullosa on June 25, 2026 The search box was built to send you away. The chatbox is built to keep you. A dispatch on what …
First love, then technique: the underrated power of building bigger-than-life things by Nicolás Boullosa on June 11, 2026 A World Cup that won’t get going, a cathedral that finally did, and why conciliation (not muscle) is the kind …
The case for civilization-scale projects: completing Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia 🏗️ by Nicolás Boullosa on May 15, 2026 A hundred years after Antoni Gaudí died on his way to confession, the Sagrada Familia finishes its skyline — the …
Aspirational inefficiency: dispatches on the rise of pickup trucks as lifestyle by Nicolás Boullosa on March 26, 2026 From workhorse to wish fulfillment, the pickup truck is often a vehicle that carries less in its bed than in …
Invisible architecture: how the way we look at things shapes reality by Nicolás Boullosa on February 12, 2026 We don’t just move through the world: we can help compose it with attention (and intention). The same street can …
Bill Mollison & the Austral Summer: remediation in a disaster-prone world by Nicolás Boullosa on January 23, 2025 In January 2008, we visited CERES Melbourne and met Bill Mollison, author of the seminal book Permaculture One. Reflecting on …
Is it a dark era? It’s certainly a dark time of the year, & that’s okay by Nicolás Boullosa on November 14, 2024 Each city has one unique light, and light is much more than an atmospheric device propelling our perception, mood, and …
