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 …
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 …
SimCity-like arcologies as self-sustaining living ecosystems by Nicolás Boullosa on January 19, 2022 When we recently visited the courtyard of 25 Verde, the condominium of 63 wooden-shingle-clad apartments on a five-story, corten steel …
Mindset & outcome: from paths not taken to those yet to take by Nicolás Boullosa on January 2, 2022 No matter how free and disinhibited we feel, our behavior deals with expectations of society and others upon us, as …
Crisis Urbanism: medieval citadels to Soleri’s arcologies by Nicolás Boullosa on November 19, 2021 William Gibson was 22 when he visited a 1970 exhibition hosted by Paolo Soleri, an idealist architect who envisioned self-contained …
Built treehouse annex, then became their live-work respite by Kirsten Dirksen on June 25, 2021 Dustin Feider’s prefab system assembles sturdy treehouses with minimum impact. After making models for clients such as The Doors’ guitarist, …
Gobernanza “glocal”: mitigar a gran escala, adaptar lo local by Nicolás Boullosa on March 17, 2021 Un puñado de personas se ha acostumbrado a trabajar lejos de los focos y la atención del momento; su misión …
Sewed own popup dome-home for need, been selling them since by Kirsten Dirksen on December 19, 2020 In 1979 Asha Deliverance sewed her first geodesic dome on an old Singer sewing machine, finishing it in time to …
Dome design toughens with size, regulates home/garden within by Kirsten Dirksen on November 14, 2020 When Buckminster Fuller conceived of the geodesic dome in the 1940s he was intrigued by the efficiency of a super-lightweight …
Dymaxion: could homes be as affordable & precise as appliances? by Kirsten Dirksen on July 28, 2019 Supported by tension cables around a central mast, the Dymaxion House was a light-weight, prefab home designed to be flat-packed …
