Strawbale 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 …
Architect’s simple dream home in AZ’s saguaro cactus forest by Kirsten Dirksen on March 30, 2015 When architect Michael P. Johnson prepared to design his wife’s dream home in the middle of a saguaro cactus forest …
Gattaca’s movie set: in Frank Lloyd Wright’s city-building by Kirsten Dirksen on February 16, 2015 When Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Marin civic center in the 1950s, he was so ahead of his time that …
Survivalist tiny dorms at Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin arq school by Kirsten Dirksen on October 27, 2014 Since Frank Lloyd Wright began building Taliesin West– his winter home and school in the desert-, students have been living …
10 tendencias sobre casas pequeñas: forma, función, ecología by Nicolás Boullosa on March 25, 2014 Avanzamos las que -creemos- serán las principales tendencias del ámbito más dinámico y creativo de la arquitectura contemporánea: la frontera …
Stone toolshed as timeless mediterranean tiny home (25m2) by Kirsten Dirksen on March 26, 2012 When Pascual Alberola and his partner went looking for a weekend house near their home in Valencia (Spain), they wanted …
