Notes on light, material, and how buildings meet the ground.
Two materials that refuse to pretend to be anything other than what they are, and why a house built from them tends to age better than one built to look finished on day one.
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What a mill, a power station, or a machine shop can teach a designer that a blank site never will, and why the old bones are usually worth keeping.
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On the clerestory window and the old, quiet idea that daylight is a building material, not a fixture you bolt on once the walls are finished.
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