Quote for Today: Barbara Hurd
In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in …
Quote for Today: John Cusack
Well, anything that’s interesting in a film, or in a character –all your passion, your sex, your anger, your rage, all that– comes from that part of you that you …
Quote for Today: A Cherokee Blessing
May the warm winds of heaven blow softly upon your house. May the Great Spirit bless all who enter there. May your mocassins make happy tracks in many snows, and …
Quote for Today: Stephen King
“When it was done and I went to sleep, I lay awake and listened to the clock on your nightstand and the wind outside and understood that I was really …
Quote for Today: Mehmet Murat İldan
The Earth loves us through its gravity and this love is ideal: It neither sticks to us nor lets us fly into the unknown darkness! ―Mehmet Murat İldan
Quote for Today: Carla H. Krueger
To Katie, it was as lonely and secret as any building could be; its size and grandeur meant less to her. She didn’t know or care when the place had …
Living in a Crack: Keret House in Warsaw, Poland
Less than 4 feet at its widest point, Keret House, the narrowest residence in the world, isn’t for the claustrophobic. Polish architect Jakub Szczesny is famous for radical thinking inside a …
Flowers of the Indian Home: The Brilliance of Rangoli
People around the globe draw inspiration from nature to decorate their homes and workplaces. What lies beneath this creative impulse? Rangoli is an esteemed folk art which is known by many …
Be It Ever So Humble: The Southern Shotgun House
Society has a tendency to write off working class neighborhoods as lacking in creativity and artistry. Are we missing something? Vernacular architecture is that which uses local construction materials to …
Quote for Today: Gaston Bachelard
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream …