A door carries symbolic weight. It is the way we close out others, it is the signifier of home, it creates a suggestion of privacy and a feeling of safety. A door defines our place in the world.

The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety research center in Chester County conducts full-scale wildfire experiments in the interest of learning how to better protect homes from fires.

I love how this house, not yet a house but a structure, activates the neighborhood. I have lived in Five Points for many, many years, and had my studio in its current location, a former chop-shop, for ...

Can a house sustain itself by eating its own tail? Can the body plug into the computer? Can you nourish a duck, 15 goldfish, an apple tree sapling, an apricot tree plantlet, and a small rhododendron ...