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Public Interest Design/Build - South Africa
After taking our Public Interest Design/Build course, Janine de Waal was inspired to do something great in her home country of South Africa!
Founder John Connell on Home Page with Duo Dickson
Yestermorrow founder John Connell on Duo Dickinson's radio show, focused on Home Change in the Climate.
A Reflection on the Last Day of the 2016 Semester in Sustainable Design Build
As the last day dawned on the 2016 Design Build Semester program, we prepared to show to the world the culmination of our efforts. It has been a long time since we were eight strangers canoeing around Kettle Pond and annoying Jacob with word games, but in that time we have grown together not only as a team but as individuals.
Myths and Magic Surrounding the PreFab Boom
Though currently the darling of residential design & construction media, prefab is much more than a passing fashion. Prefab is here to stay. Doubt it? Just consider today’s door or window products. Only a generation ago these items were hand-built on site. And similar transformations have taken place with kitchen cabinets, fireplaces, flooring, tile, shower bases, stairs (circular and conventional), roof hatches, chimneys…..these site fabricated building parts are now mostly made in factories. We even have custom pre-cast foundations delivered to the site (Superior Wall Inc.).
How this creativity course uncovered the visual artist in me
