Depending on where you live, you might have bamboo growing in your backyard or neighborhood. It is a plant that grows incredibly quickly and provides an excellent building material. Elora Hardy started a bamboo construction company in Bali, Indonesia because bamboo “… has the compressive force of concrete and the tensile strength of steel, is […]
Are you a teenager? Do you know a teenager? Have you ever seen a teenager? And, has any of this happened in Boston? If so, there is a Teen Architecture Workshop that will be held in April through the Learning By Design, a non-profit architecture and design organization. It sounds pretty great. You will design […]
In the town of Evanston, Illinois (just north of Chicago), an architect bought a house for only ten dollars. You heard it right! TEN DOLLARS. And it is a house that was designed by a famous architect, built in the Prairie School period of architecture. (Remember the Prairie School is the period of Frank Lloyd […]