Revealing the Hidden Connections: Housing Projects & Historic Forests
By Summer Constantino
A condemned housing project is the last place you’d want to go hunting for treasure, literally or figuratively. Or is it?
Entering dilapidated buildings is not for the faint of heart. Ghosts seem to be behind every corner and the visual reality is best described as “hopelessly depressing”. But if you can shoo away [...]
The Complexity of Layers
By Scott Boylston
Faux clapboard siding made from PVC…on top of asbestos panels…on top of cedar shingles…on top of heartpine studs. These physical layers tell us something of a building’s past. But while they are similar to the growth rings of a tree in their documentation of past conditions— and while something of the technological savvy [...]