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Quick story about a family downsizing their home and living a zero waste lifestyle. I love the “de-cluttering” approach and attention to design.

LAT: Ray Kappe's Landmark House (interactive panorama and photos) →

"The design process is based on a constant interplay of feelings and reason. The feelings, preferences, longings, and desires that emerge and demand to be given a form must be controlled by critical powers of reasoning, but it is our feelings that tell us whether abstract considerations really ring true. To a large degree, designing is based on understanding and establishing systems of order. Yet I believe that the essential substance of the architecture we seek proceeds from feeling and insight. Precious moments of intuition result from patient work. With the sudden emergence of an inner image, a new line in a drawing, the whole design changes and is newly formulated within a fraction of a second."

— Peter Zumthor, Thinking Architecture

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Photo from The Airstream Life featured in Dwell. Landscape architect Andreas Stravropoulos of XS LAND uses a mobile studio for client work.

Photo of East Village rooftop from Topping Themselves, in Metropolis magazine, June 2009 issue.