The Soul of a Tree: George Nakashima
“We woodworkers have the audacity to shape timber from these noble trees. In a sense it is our karma yoga, the path of action we must take to lead to our union with the divine. Each tree, each part of...
View ArticleSpace Exploration: The Architecture of Valentino Agnoli
Here’s a Florida house by the inimitable California architect Valentino Agnoli, one of the principal designer-builders featured in Handmade Houses: A Century of Earth-Friendly Home Design. For detailed...
View ArticleCountry Soul ~ Photographer John Witzig, New South Wales, Australia
Read the Q&A with John and see more of his brilliant photographs here: http://www.tsovet.com/chronicle/issue-1/john-witzig
View ArticleRobinson Jeffers and the Back-to-the-Land Dwelling / A Slideshow in Carmel,...
Saturday, October 5, in Carmel, Ca. The influence of nature poet Robinson Jeffers on back-to-the-land living and the handmade-house phenomenon along the California Coast, from the 1930s to the 1980s,...
View ArticleCarving Above the Cloud Layer: Rufus Blunk Studio | My Q & A with Artist...
The heady early days of green architecture’s gelling into a real movement, in California in the 1960s, were as much a not-so-subtle middle finger to the general state of utter disturbance in society as...
View ArticleUFO in the Woods
The 1956–57 Pearlman Cabin, a Star Wars intergalactic cruiser earth-docked on an array of peeled poles, little known it seems and one of my favorite John Lautner houses, was a feature in my ’06 book...
View ArticleRichard Stratman
Richard Stratman (1933–2014), a California painter, architect, and handmade house builder of unusual prowess, was an integral part of a small group of Esalen staff who drove the green-building agenda...
View ArticleRemembering Henry Yorke Mann
From the May 4, 2015 edition of THE GLOBE AND MAIL. (for more on Mann, see my category on him at left.)
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