Skinny house in LA: affordable, minimal, modern home/office by Kirsten Dirksen on May 6, 2013 Simon Storey (Anonymous) wanted to buy an affordable home so he bought the smallest and cheapest thing on the market. …
Berkeley’s backyard tiny house helps with income, landscape by Kirsten Dirksen on October 8, 2012 Karen Chapple is a city planning professor so she knows all about the benefits of backyard cottages as urban infill …
Family of 3 amplifies flat with a see-thru mezzanine core by Kirsten Dirksen on September 17, 2012 When Miguel Ángel Borrás and Elodie Grammont bought their apartment in Barcelona’s Eixample district, it was divided into small rooms, …
Urbanidad: densidad + vivienda compacta = vidas cruzadas by Kirsten Dirksen on May 1, 2011 Las ciudades del mediodía europeo se sirven del uso intensivo de los equipamientos, públicos y privados, para conciliar la convivencia de intereses …
Big green Apple life: live smaller, drive less, share more by Kirsten Dirksen on December 5, 2009 My love affair with New York began rather blindly. I moved for a short-term television job and stayed for six …
EcoDensity Vancouver: stacked homes and “Fonzie Suites” by Kirsten Dirksen on June 2, 2009 Vancouver gets high marks as a liveable city by North American standards, but even Vancouverites recognize that their ecological footprint …
Discovering the suburban American Dream outside Barcelona by Kirsten Dirksen on May 6, 2009 I returned to my adolescence this weekend, to a typical upscale American suburb, without even leaving greater Barcelona. Until setting …
