MATISHAK FAMILY PATTERNS & DESIGN DRAWINGS* * Please note that ‘Matishak’ is the Americanized phonetic spelling of the Polish surname...

If we consider our dwellings as a form of nourishment for our souls, then natural materials are the whole foods of building. While some...

Pattern Language & Generative Process Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein have identified more than two hundred...

Feng Shui & Energy Flow Ch’i, or lifeforce, has been a recent rediscovery in our culture. It plays an important role in the process of...

Sacred Geometry & Harmonious Proportion Nature designs most of the living world according to a proportion that is often called the golden...

Greetings, Living Earth Gardeners! This is Head Gardener Machei at Living Earth Garden Project. Last practical blog we went through the...

Possible Design Solutions Acknowledging that the Earth is alive, we then ask if there are architectural design methods that can express...

EARTH AS LIVING ORGANISM At its extreme, the old mechanical worldview denies life in nearly all organisms except humans, and then,...

For this week I will continue with the theme of introduction and background, focusing now on the "Garden Project" idea. After finishing...

PARADIGM, SYMBOL, ARCHETYPE The seasick feeling, as Thomas Kuhn describes it, that we often feel in our cultural environment, as we get...

From Founder, Machei Matysiak Greetings, Living Earth Gardeners! My name is Machei (pronounced 'Ma' as in ma and pa, 'ch' as in church,...

BIOPHILIA & BIOGNOSIS BIOPHILIA & BIOGNOSIS Cultivating in ourselves a deep fondness, connection, and love for all life forms and living...

KEY QUESTIONS In the course of my research, certain phrases and expressions continually appeared. They can be roughly categorized by the...

No good lasting change has ever come from of a sense of fear alone.* Most of the dire predictions for a world catastrophe have evoked...

Nearly thirty years have passed since President Jimmy Carter officially notified citizens of an impending energy crisis and our need to...

Entry #1 in a weekly series of blog posts, created by Machei Matysiak This first series is Machei's Master's Thesis created for New...

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