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McMansion Hell
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Irv Weissman’s home is about twenty minutes from Stanford University, hidden from the road by a tall stand of trees. Inside, the rooms are spacious, and the living room more so. The ceiling is high and broad-beamed; the furniture Western chic: chairs hewn from tree branches, tables built from tree trunks. Spread out in front of the fireplace is a
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Samara - Backyard homes and ADUs
Backyard – Samara
This is a must-read essay by Dan Hill, introducing Adaptive Design: Insanely great, or just good enough? Originally published in Core77 in 2004, it’s a critique of the unadaptable, glued-closed Apple iPod and its non-user-replaceable battery.
Hill quotes Brian Eno:
Hill quotes Brian Eno:
An important aspect of design is the degree to which the object involves you in its... See more
Revisiting Adaptive Design, a lost design movement
Sey embodied that frictionless, easily shared aesthetic developed for…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
“Nicholas Bijan Pourfard is not very good at sitting still. In his home in Escondido, at the southernmost tip of California, the luthier and furniture maker is just putting the finishing touches to a bookcase he built for the space, which he moved into a little over a year ago. And it’s not just any space: designed by architect and industrial... See more
instagram.comThe walls are still white, but the room is coherently decorated and lit by sunlight instead of fluorescents. It complies with the unspoken but ubiquitous aesthetics of Instagram.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Backyard – Samara
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community formation