The Decade of What’s Next
By Kathleen Fritz
This decade has already been memorialized on talk shows and blogs with the populous not knowing what to call it. Some are playing number games like “The Aughts” or “The Y2K’s”, but others are looking into what this first decade of the new millennium actually meant. Some are suggesting the “Post 9/11 Era” [...]
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 [...]
Material/Immaterial
By Scott Boylston / Photos by Kathy Fritz
There’s a lot of lumber at Savannah Gardens; old, beautiful heartpine, the quality of which we rarely see in nature anymore. And one of Emergent Structures’ goals is to extend its utility, in part, so that other trees do not suffer a similar fate. But when we say [...]