Experimenting keeps the magic going: beware of dogmatic “tradition” by Nicolás Boullosa on March 9, 2023 Thanks to the site and Kirsten’s YT channel, we’re lucky to be exposed to lots of architecture and (sometimes brilliant, …
How a trip to the bottom of the Grand Canyon led to new endeavors by Nicolás Boullosa on December 7, 2022 Few adventures leave an imprint of fantastic, self-enclosed worlds as intense as the ones displaying discoveries of forsaken paradises on …
End of shop class, and what it means for (most-needed) manual trades by Nicolás Boullosa on March 16, 2022 In the summer of 2006, Mathew B. Crawford had the urge to explain what was happening to “shop class” across …
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 …
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 …
Needed basic furniture. Came up with Paleo-transformer system by Kirsten Dirksen on August 29, 2021 To furnish an old country home in a 12th Century town, we wanted to create the minimal expression of furniture …
Kristie Wolfe restores boat-shaped cabin in forsaken lake by Kirsten Dirksen on August 9, 2021 Kristie Wolfe has transformed a giant potato, a fire lookout, and an earthen hole into homes and now she’s converting …
Our definition of “home”, place, & belonging (documentary) by Kirsten Dirksen on May 16, 2021 Wanting to examine the meaning of home in a reference point for Western Civilization, our family of 5 boarded a …
Vivienda mínima: el sueño de modelos que rompan la inercia by Nicolás Boullosa on May 13, 2021 El autodenominado movimiento de las casas pequeñas no puede entenderse sin el auge de los proyectos de bricolaje (referidos a …
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 …
