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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.
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.).
The Benefits of Hands on Learning
This article first appeared in Tiny House Magazine to highlight the variety of tiny house specific courses taught at Yestermorrow.
Steve Amstutz, Twenty One Years of Timber Frame Design/Build
For Steve Amstutz, timber framing is not just a profession, it’s a passion. Steve started designing and building timber frame structures from his shop in the Adirondacks in 1989 and began teaching at Yestermorrow in 1994. He has since developed a wide portfolio of works in the Northeast: from modest, small scale timberframe structures to cavernous barns—the timber frame typology Steve enjoys most.