When places speak through people: revisiting Sonoma by way of a sculptor by Nicolás Boullosa on December 4, 2025 Sometimes a stranger’s note brings a whole story flooding back: redwoods, copper surfaces, a tea house, sculptures people “use”… Remembering …
Dream Domestead uses water & geothermal for all-season paradise in Spain by Kirsten Dirksen on August 3, 2025 This off-grid homestead includes two handcrafted natural homes, a geodesic dome greenhouse built from local stone, a hand-dug stream, two …
Family builds dream-like village of dugout homes into remote SoCal hill by Kirsten Dirksen on September 1, 2024 Homes are square, they said. Polymath artist James Hubbell built 100%-curvy Hobbit Village to prove them wrong 🐚 In 1958, …
Family got unbuildable lot. They raised rustic-modern masterpiece. by Kirsten Dirksen on May 19, 2024 John Lautner’s rustic-modern cabin, tucked away in the San Jacinto mountains outside LA, is an organic architecture classic example. In …
Young architect’s Fairy-Tale home inspired by Nature’s spirals: awe inside 🐚 by Kirsten Dirksen on December 4, 2023 The Bloomhouse seems to erupt or grow from the ground, leaving no straight lines. It was actually hand-sculpted over the …
Strawbale-and-Plaster Home couple built after fire is bioclimatic marvel by Kirsten Dirksen on October 22, 2023 Ken Haggard and Polly Cooper have built natural homes with passive solar techniques and powered by renewables since the seventies, …
Steep lot was unbuildable. He raised retro-futuristic home over lake by Kirsten Dirksen on August 27, 2023 Robert Oshatz believes a house should fit the land and its residents, so his homes are all a bit fantastic. …
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, …
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 …
Berlin architect turns silo into spaceship-esque home-as-art by Kirsten Dirksen on November 6, 2017 After two years of living in a camper with his young daughter, architect Jan Körbes wanted something better suited to …
