Sense of place vs. non-places. Our relation with the things surrounding us by Nicolás Boullosa on April 9, 2024 Being interested in urbanism, I’ve seen one type of meme popping up repeatedly. It shows a rather conventional picture of …
Acorns: why we failed to domesticate a beloved wild food source by Nicolás Boullosa on June 2, 2023 There’s no older way of showing one’s agency over one’s surroundings than providing our own food from sources that our …
How hermits clamped their dwellings on to Meteora boulders by Kirsten Dirksen on April 5, 2021 Archeologists argue that Meteora has been considered a holy place by hermits since the Paleolithic, or several millennia before Christians …
Pythagorean home amidst olive grove offers views & protection by Kirsten Dirksen on April 7, 2019 Asked by an Athens couple to design a home embedded in their olive grove, architect Tilemachos Andrianopoulos used geometry to …
On designing a stackable, bioclimatic shipping container home by Kirsten Dirksen on March 4, 2019 Motivated by her love of mobile homes and bioclimatic design, as well as the surplus of shipping containers at Athens …
Restoring medieval tower house near Sparta as life project by Kirsten Dirksen on February 17, 2019 Over 35 years ago, Kostas Zouvelos and his then-fiancé Kassiani Theodorakakou saw a for sale sign on a crumbling early …
Small island getaway seeks old Greek simplicity: “meden agan” by Kirsten Dirksen on December 30, 2018 On the boat from Athens to a camping trip on Kea Island, Takis Yalelis began sketching a house that explored …
Storefront near Salonica market becomes a “passer” small home by Kirsten Dirksen on November 5, 2018 Designers Babis Papanikolaou and Christina Tsirangelou imagined living and working in one of the tiny 1920s storefronts in their hometown …
