Nevada desert simple living in ’66 Airstream Overlander by Kirsten Dirksen on November 10, 2014 Bruce Czopek first moved to the Nevada desert several decades ago to take a faux finishing job. When the recent …
Tiny houses’ polymath: tinker, lyrist, carpenter, cartoonist by Kirsten Dirksen on November 3, 2014 Derek Diedricksen has loved tiny homes since he read Lester Walker’s “Tiny Tiny Houses” as a ten year old. It …
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 …
Containertopia: cargo container tinyhome town on Oakland lot by Kirsten Dirksen on October 20, 2014 Luke Iseman and Heather Stewart were tired of paying San Francisco rents and had always dreamt of living in a …
Earthships: self-sustaining homes for post-apocalyptic land? by Kirsten Dirksen on October 6, 2014 On the desert mesa of New Mexico, miles from the nearest town of Taos (pop. 5,700), Star-Wars-like shelters rise from …
Tiny Texas Houses’ “Willy Wonka” on doing magic reusing wood by Kirsten Dirksen on September 16, 2014 Brad “Darby” Kittel came to Texas living on a converted school bus. He had planned to write the Great American …
P2P Brooklyn: from apartment to shared flat, restaurant/club by Kirsten Dirksen on September 8, 2014 Adam Finkelman and Evan Garfield were veteran roommates of the New York City rental scene so when they discovered a …
Tall law student, tiny house: bachelor builds dorm on wheels by Kirsten Dirksen on September 1, 2014 When Joel Fleck moved home to after college, he wanted his own place, but he didn’t want to pay the …
Box Office stacks 32 colorful containers into stunning building by Kirsten Dirksen on August 25, 2014 In 2008, architect Joe Haskett was hired to design an office building on an abandoned lot in Providence, RI. Then …
Marfa’s restored trailers from the nomadic recreation heyday by Kirsten Dirksen on August 20, 2014 Two hundred miles southeast of El Paso and 800 miles west from Austin, Marfa may be isolated from major cultural centers, …