I remember exactly when I broke up with math. I was in third grade, and the setup was that whoever completed their quiz first could go do something else while everyone else finished up. One day, for the first time, some other little girl bested me in the race to go do something else, and…
20 pallets and some ingenuity will get you a pretty great shed.
Keeping my eye on this one @ $900.
I was saddened to read that the v11 version of the Rural Studio’s $20k house project involves taking a bulldozer and a match to the owner’s previous home: The house itself is about a century old and he’s lived in it for 40 years. It holds several generations of history, some of which is personal…
This wonderful graphic is part of the Black Mountain College bulletin of 1945. The bulletin is part of the DH Ramsay collection at the University of North Carolina—Asheville, Special Collections and Black Mountain College Museum and Art Center and is online at http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/periodicals/black_mountain_college/default_black_mountain_college.htm. I love the description of the college: A Place to Learn and…
The initial sketch is always an emotion, not a concept.
It’s like a giant psychological puzzle for me. Insanely complex, one part craft, one part science, one part Hail Mary.
When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way — before one began.
