catapult magazine

Items tagged building

• Building a just house

  Should efforts toward the right to read what we want be eclipsed by efforts to ensure basic human dignity for our brothers and sisters around the world?

• A home is not built in a day

  Practical advice for designing and building your own home.

• On home-building

  Building your own home can be a rewarding adventure when you apply your values.

• Building a family

  A family tree bears more than just skilled contractors.

• The church proper

  How the variety of buildings in which we worship reflect larger tensions and ideas, particularly for multi-generation families.
  

• Interior formation

  What is the effective difference between a cathedral and an auditorium?  A sparse Protestant dais and Orthodox iconography?

• Let us build a house

  A renovation project sparks ideas about the interplay of images and values embodied in bricks and mortar.

• A revolution for our time

  Why we need sustainable building solutions now.

• Dream home

  A reflection on the purpose of a home and how to be attentive to the story it tells.

• Audacious imagination

  On making a counter-intuitive move in a time of tightening belts.

• Ten things we imagine at Huss School

  Modest proposals for the future life of 22,000 square feet and four acres.

• A model of inefficiency

  Why the built environment matters in shaping priorities and possibilities.

• A neverending story

  Forget grandma’s brooch -- what do you do when you inherit a 27,000 square foot building?