Clean building practices are the line of defense against the thoughtless, ubiquitous use of toxic building materials. The Slow Space Movement advocates for buildings that ...
Toxic Building Materials in Construction
Toxic Materials: What Are Buildings Made Of? Many toxic materials lurk in our homes and buildings and they are a danger to our health and ...
Empathy in Architecture: The Kasungu Maternity Waiting Village by MASS Design
In her recent essay “Designing with Empathy,” Slow Space founder and architect Mette Aamodt writes, “Empathy is putting yourself in someone else’s shoes and feeling the ...
The Case For Beauty In Architecture
For a building to be good, it must be beautiful. Why? Because beauty in architecture brings us joy and happiness. Merriam-Webster defines beauty as “qualities ...
Designing the Experience of Space
In this installment on our series about the three tenets of good architecture, we illuminate the experience of space and architecture. By focusing on the ...
Architecture as Experience: Peter Zumthor’s Thermal Baths
This article is part of an installment of essays and examples illuminating the essence of good architecture, which, as Slow Space founder Mette Aamodt defines, ...
Designing With Empathy
The Slow Space Movement stands for buildings that are good, clean and fair, but what exactly do we mean by that? This is our inaugural ...
Sverre Fehn: Between Earth & Sky
I have visited Sverre Fehn’s National Museum – Architecture and Grosch Bistro in Oslo many times as a good friend is one of the curators and ...
McMansions are the Fast Fashion of the Building Industry
Up until the early 20th century when a man or woman of means needed a new suit or dress they would go to a Tailor ...
Junkspace and the Death of Architecture: Slow Space Finds its Nemesis
“Junkspace” is a rambling, brilliant lamentation on the death of architecture by one who actively participated in its demise. It was a scathing critique at ...
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