Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Mr Bricolage. 1991 Find a hero. Read everything about them. Apply it. Find another. Do it again. Those were Jay Potts’ instructions. For someone with the capacity to obsess over something for a short period, they still work perfectly. Jay was my architecture lecturer. Well, he was the one really. Found me a job. Picked […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Getting It Back. It’s dark. Wet. Rain blowing against the window. I’m waiting for the sun to come up so I can see the trees. In the meantime, I’m wondering: why are we obsessed with getting back what we spend on house renovations? We’ve all been trained to think like developers — to see our […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Complexity & Contradiction. Cave. The first studio apartment. Roof, walls. A single window and door combo. Your place. Sleep, cook, think. What more? Houses haven’t changed much. Where there is space, we add more rooms. Where there isn’t, we manage with less. They adapt. Progress means complexity. We have all this stuff. Often marketed for […]
