Wrath Of Gnonさんのイラストまとめ

Illustrating the human scale and natural organic materials of the ultimate of Scanian (south Sweden) vernacular architecture: Skånelängan. You don't need to read Swedish to understand these. The perfectly modular housing of Swedish 16th-21st centuries. Ecological, sustainable.

“The traditional architecture and building and settlement techniques of the pre–fossil fuel age represent the operative tools of global ecological reconstruction. It is the condition of nature that will, as in the past, redefine our development possibilities.”
— Léon Krier

It is now 2500 years since the battle of Thermopylae (give or take a week and a half). Very little of Spartan architecture has survived but we do know they built in stone and Spartans originating from Dorians, their temples and public buildings ought have been of the Doric order.

In 18th c. Osaka, Hiroshima and Edo (Tokyo), the cost of urine and humanure was so high that a family of five could pay their entire house rent by just selling nightly collection rights to their toilets. Live for free by going to the toilet. Hold it in till you get home lads!

A more resilient, sustainable urbanism? Up until fairly recently in Japan, it was common to see mobile fast food restaurants pop up where ever there was a chance to catch some hungry punters in the mornings or evenings. Soba, udon, ramen, carried and cooked on the spot.

The Goldfish Seller, by Wada Sanzo, 1939. A sign of early summer during the 19th to the 20th centuries. Itinerant salesmen would wander the streets of Edo/Tokyo with glass fish bowls, water, fish, and a distinctive high pitched call. They had mostly disappeared before 1980.

Our imaginary towns are far more interesting than what we create in real life. Not because they are necessarily unrealistic (it is our modern towns that are really unsustainable) but because off different goals. Here is Theed, a town without streets. Reminds me of ancient Athens.

Michael G. Imber is a San Antonio architect that sure knows how to make beautiful drawings and paintings. Superior work. https://t.co/p3ECsg3Fsk

The worst modern art museum architecture I have had the misfortune to visit is the Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland. All concrete (so green!) and designed so that any little sound anywhere is carried throughout the building and amplified. The exhibits were literally trash as well.

Any house with the plague was thoroughly cleaned and doused with a cocktail of 26 different herbs that together were antimicrobial, insecticidal, acaricidal (against ticks and lice, main spreader of the plague). For example, laurel, mint, sage, juniper.