This invitation just in from our Master Planning Core Team…The Master Planning Core Team has authorized the formation of a Design Field Team. This volunteer group is needed to explore, articulate and demystify "design" as it is found at the Yestermorrow Design/Build School. The primary focus will be architecture and "built form" but...
"So, what do you guys do at night?" Well, some nights we share. Skills that is. Interns are organizing a weekly Skillshare, to keep our minds, bodies and hands learning, even after hours. It gives us a chance to share something we care about with each other, and connect with students and staff members over more than beer and drywall screws.This...
As the 2012 Woodworking Certificate Program enters its third week, students are honing in from forests to fine woodworking. The 11-week intensive course began with sawyer Nick Zandstra, who took students out into the woods on Yestermorrow's campus to analyze trees and the wood they produce, and eventually demonstrate felling and small-scale...
I started working here about a month ago and I thought I would share what it is like to see and understand Yestermorrow for the first time…I learned about Yestermorrow when I was looking for a new place to live in Vermont. My wife and I stumbled upon the campus and went in for a tour, I immediately felt as though it was a place I would like to...
I find myself detouring through the studio whenever I can this week—stopping at a drafting table to look at a design in process or stepping back to take in anidea board of drawings, photos, and lists reading like so many prose poems. It’s the last week of the Core Program for the Sustainable Building and Design Certificate, and 12 students are...
