Anyone Can Build a House
The Segal method and the UK's self-build movement In 1962, the German-born architect Walter Segal was living in Highgate, north London,
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Long-form, original writing on the built environment.
Déneigement Montreal
A peek into Montreal's mastery of snow Before moving to Montreal in 2020, I had lived my whole life in Toronto. Toronto averages
A Never Ending Grind
The mortar and pestle is one of the most common kitchen tools in the world, and one of the most taxing to use. Why hasn&
On Geofoam
Images from the 2014 construction of Maggie Daley Park in Chicago are something to behold. Where one might expect earthmoving equipment and rough piles of
A Symbiotic Truce
On composites, crayfish, and reinforced concrete's tentative alkalinity. For most of a red swamp crayfish’s life, cambarincola barbarae are a welcome sight.
Ise Jingu and the Pyramid of Enabling Technologies
Our buildings are often long lived things, capable of outlasting the society that produced them. The Egyptian Pyramids are still with us, thousands of years