Recovering lost knowledge: traditional practices for a safer future by Nicolás Boullosa on September 11, 2024 For decades, coastal areas in California like Rancho Palos Verdes didn’t improve drainage systems or reinforce slopes with deep-rooted vegetation …
What urbanites seek in mountain valleys & periurban hamlets by Nicolás Boullosa on March 9, 2022 When a little over two weeks ago we embarked on a road trip, I did not know that crossing the …
Life high in the mountains, primitivism & simple living by Nicolás Boullosa on November 3, 2021 In 1905, a 24-year-old artist who had decided to leave Barcelona for Paris at the turn of the century in …
Buys 14th-C. Pyrenees home, builds treehouse village around by Kirsten Dirksen on August 4, 2012 Emmanuel Grymonpré has invented a new style of treehouse. The shelters he’s built-in trees overlooking the Spanish Pyrenees don’t rely …