Article 8 of 13
Your New Underground House
Illustration by Harriet Russell
This illustration is taken from “An Endangered Species,” a story Harriet Russell contributed to our 2007 book Sorry, Out of Gas.
The planet is the client
This issue is a reader for a particular, activist blend of architectural approaches to the environment. It establishes a bit of (tendentious) context; it defines, and redefines, and argues over certain terms, clarifying the attitudes behind them; it documents our mistakes as evenly as our successes, so we can really understand where we’ve been and where we are now. And since we’re still hoping, it puts forward new design possibilities—which we promise don’t all originate in the 1970s. Your help on that would be greatly appreciated.
