King Harvest has surely come

I was reading about Jessica Helfand, who together with William Drenttel form Winterhouse, a design studio in Northwest Connecticut. She is Senior Critic at Yale School of Art, where she is an Associate Fellow in Jonathan Edwards College.

Watch this video!  Even if you're not interested in what they say about design, their house is perfection.  And they have my favourite dogs!

So long, Martin Wells

Martin Wells, the father of modern earth-sheltered architecture died last week.  He championed a philosophy of "gentle architecture" as a way to preserve or restore the natural environment.  New York Times obituary here.