Emergent Structures

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 [...]