When a friend dies, the algorithm falls silent: friendship & grief today by Nicolás Boullosa on July 11, 2025 We live amid digital echoes and fading connections. Yet when a friend dies, the quiet truth breaks through. Social media …
Until it’s gone syndrome: seeing home through the eyes of distance by Nicolás Boullosa on June 27, 2025 From a forgotten Mediterranean hillside to the streets of Paris and Barcelona. On presentism, memory, and the clarity that comes …
Book launch dispatches: In praise of unrushed stories & Life-Changing Homes by Nicolás Boullosa on May 29, 2025 Step inside homes that transformed lives. Discover stories that linger, not scroll past. It is a book for readers who …
Poetics of dead leaves & tree landscaping as best thermostat around by Nicolás Boullosa on October 30, 2024 As of now, leaves change their color and fall around us. In a fragmented reality, the slow shift of seasons …
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 …
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 …
An amateur’s take on building a cob house that ages well by Nicolás Boullosa on June 15, 2022 “Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road,” has …
Slow architecture: houses that understand people and place by Nicolás Boullosa on May 11, 2022 Idleness and boredom are a type of lucidity experienced by those brave enough to confront themselves instead of filling their …
On finding meaning & self-actualization in the little things by Nicolás Boullosa on February 16, 2022 As GenXers, we come from an era still defined by cinema, TV, and music hit lists blasted on the radio …
Nature, nurture: Spinoza & Giordano Bruno on things big/small by Nicolás Boullosa on October 18, 2021 In 1927, French novelist Romain Rolland wrote a letter to Sigmund Freud in which he described why humans might be …
