Oyvind Holmstad
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Dec- 2012 -7 December
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6 December
Let’s Talk About Soil
Further Reading: Soil – Our Financial Institution The Story of Soil
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Sep- 2012 -11 September
The Man Who Started a Fire (Christopher Alexander Lecture at Berkeley, California)
by Øyvind Holmstad Jump to 12:20 to skip introductions As said in the introduction to this lecture held in spring…
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Aug- 2012 -10 August
Permaculture, Nature & Civilization
by Øyvind Holmstad Workers of the industrial revolution Permaculture was first a contraction of the words permanent agriculture, later being…
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May- 2012 -28 May
The Deep Truth of a Sheltering Roof
The roof plays a primal role in our lives. The most primitive buildings are nothing but a roof. If the…
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Dec- 2011 -15 December
A Zen View Upon the World (Less is More)
by Øyvind Holmstad This article is inspired by the Alexandrine pattern 134, Zen View. The pattern states: “The archetypal zen view occurs in…
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6 December
A Multilayered Anti-Pattern
by Øyvind Holmstad The problem is that we are adapting to the wrong things — to images, or to short-term…
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Nov- 2011 -16 November
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9 November
From Ideology to Technology
by Øyvind Holmstad Michael Mehaffy and Nikos Salingaros are running a series of essays in Metropolis Magazine at the moment,…
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Jun- 2011 -19 June
A New Permatecture Toolbox! (From Nikos A. Salingaros)
by Øyvind Holmstad The goal of permaculture is to reunite man with nature and man with man through design systems,…
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17 June
The Timeless Way of Building
by Øyvind Holmstad This timeless book from Christopher Alexander was released back in the seventies, and it’s just as much…
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May- 2011 -28 May
Vandana Shiva x3
by Øyvind Holmstad In this interview for CSSC Encounters, Dr. Vandana Shiva gives the history of her engagement and explains…
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