02
APRIL 2026
MATERIAL
Board-formed concrete is a record of patience →
Why we keep returning to the slow, almost agricultural ritual of pouring against rough pine.

8 MIN READ
Field notes, material studies, and the things we are watching — published when there is something to say, and not before.

Notes from a week at the quarry outside Lueders — what the cream stone teaches when you stop drawing and start lifting.
Why we keep returning to the slow, almost agricultural ritual of pouring against rough pine.

Returning to Casa Tre Cortile after a decade — what the live oaks did, what the stucco did, what we got wrong.

On the quiet discipline of the morning section, and why our office still keeps a wall of trace.

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