Rethinking reuse. Thought provoking work to awaken our approach to demolition versus reuse in architecture. #affordablearchitecture #eartharchitecture

Getting closer to a viable alternative to concrete? Home “grown” would save a lot of money and tons of CO2. #eartharchitecture #affordablearchitecture www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/s...

Clear cutting protected forests to make up for the 30% of timber the US normally gets from Canada? This is NOT sustainable in any meaning of the word. The deranged lunatic is destroying everything. #eartharchitecture #affordablearchitecture

Fear has a way of being contagious. But courage is also contagious.

“The only thing that might truly be sufficient is a massive investment at every level of government in social housing.” Guess that’s not happening anytime soon. 😣 #affordablearchitecture

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

I have been in awe of this horse. He qualified for the Bundeschampionate last year and will be in the Elite Oldenburg auction this weekend! Bred by my friend Markus Keuper who has lots of great young horses! Check out the videos! #sporthorses #dressage oldenburger.horse24.com/de/auctions/...

what a visual

I’ve been inactive here for a while. Just been in shell shock I guess. Our biggest economic problem has been the cost of housing. How are these tariffs helping that?! Here is a good article from MIT about what we need. #affordablearchitecture www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/31/1...

We’ve been hearing that the federal workers purge has also hit the wild Mustang holding areas and adoption programs hard. Project 2025 calls for the euthanasia of all wild Mustangs. I can’t imagine this really happening, but I think we need answers now. #sporthorses wildhorsesonline.blm.gov

Anyone who has been in an abusive relationship recognizes the tactics of bullying, humiliation, and gaslighting that this administration engages in. It can be really difficult to watch it. Remember to take care of yourself.

Betrayed First Zelensky, soon us? The United States’ radical renunciation of their allies

This is hilarious! 😆 Californians should go for it! 🇩🇰 www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/e...

This is how we should be protesting! Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke is amazing. youtu.be/25AUCNZKEnY?...

That’s biophilic design at work! #eartharchitecture

Here is the full breakdown of the impacts on housing. 30% of our overall timber comes from Canada and a lot of gypsum and lime from Mexico. What an idiot. 🙄 #affordablearchitecture #eartharchitecture www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/e...

My colleagues are contacted regularly by recruiters. I never am. Why? Because I‘m over 50 (ageism is rampant in Europe). DEI doesn’t mean I would automatically be hired because of my age. It just means employers would know I exist and find out how qualified I am. www.cbsnews.com/news/dei-div...

How unbelievably stupid can you be? Was making sure you never have energy efficiency regulations and have to put even one inch of insulation on a building really worth it? #eartharchitecture #affordablearchitecture

The Trump administration‘s move to bring down construction costs? 46% of our imported timber comes from Canada. Genius. 🤔🙄 #affordablearchitecture www.usitc.gov/research_and...

Circular timber construction and a social place to gather. Nice project! #eartharchitecture

I’m very curious to see the final result of this 3D printed eco-house currently under construction in Italy. The printed material is clay sourced from the building site supported by a wood structure. #eartharchitecture #affordablearchitecture www.3dwasp.com/en/itaca-the...

Really nice adaptive reuse. #affordablearchitecture #eartharchitecture

These women didn’t sit down, stay quiet, or ask for permission—they broke the rules and changed the world. Role models. We should add Bishop Mariann Budde to the list.

Too cute! #sporthorsebreeding

#affordablearchitecture can’t get off the ground without initiatives like this!

So this past fall semester, I wrapped up my tenth year of teaching for the School of Architecture at Miami University’s study abroad center in Luxembourg. It’s been an incredible journey! #eartharchitecture #affordablearchitecture #mudec #miamiuniversity

Love these colors 🤎 #eartharchitecture #affordablearchitecture #architecture www.archdaily.com/1025929/2025...

Yep.

One of my favorite projects of our firm designed by Sahar and Henri Neuman, a master carpenter in Luxembourg. Using French high altitude Larch from about an hour away along with local spruce and pine, he carefully crafted it over 6 years. saharchitects.lu/portfolio-he... #eartharchitecture

Yay for Rilette! #sporthorses www.cnn.com/2025/01/17/e...

I’m curious if anyone has had an experience with these homes. They wouldn’t fit on most sites in Luxembourg, and I doubt they would pass our building regulations. They also look very expensive. Anyone know them? #affordablearchitecture #eartharchitecture

The Westphalian stallion licensing and auction is getting underway! #sporthorsebreeding #sporthorses #dressage onlineauction.westfalenpferde.de/en/auctions/...

The Team Tate Academy‘s Black Friday sale is going on now! #dressage #sporthorses eurodressage.com/2024/11/29/t...

Sabine is a fantastic rider and a great person. Well deserved! 👏👏👏 #dressage #sporthorses horsesdaily.com/article/sabi...

Many climate activists protest things such as flying, but the airline industry only produces 2% of global emissions. Compare that to the 37% coming from the building industry. Concrete production alone is 7-8%. Changing how we build can have a huge impact. #eartharchitecture

In Luxembourg, we will be required to report the embodied CO2 of the buildings we design in 2028. But there are still debates. Should we assume all of the carbon locked in the wood structure will be released at the end of the building’s life? #eartharchitecture www.istructe.org/resources/bl...

A very nice home transformation with circular design. #eartharchitecture materialdistrict.com/article/a-su...

Forestry knowledge is for sure a must for understanding how to build with timber. #eartharchitecture #greenbuilding

Our competition winning glamping cabin affectionately called „Den Tiermchen“. We worked tirelessly with innovative engineers to lower the embodied carbon and make it modular with circular construction techniques. #eartharchitecture #circularconstruction saharchitects.lu/portfolio-gl...

What if we could build inspiring houses for less than $5000 from locally sourced clay? High tech meets ancient wisdom. #affordablearchitecture #biophilicarchitecture #eartharchitecture youtu.be/4MLJs1KRa0Y?...

Isabel and Wendy did it again in Stuttgart! #dressage #sporthorses www.fei.org/stories/spor...

I would like to create a new feed for architecture dedicated to low embodied carbon, innovative ecological materials such as rammed earth, 3D clay printing, timber, etc. What should we call it and which hashtags should I include? Share your ideas! 🍀🌿🌱

A great article about how architects can imagine thriving in a world where we build less and challenge building at all. I just gave my students a low carbon (and lower costs)/circular construction lecture last week, so I‘ll for sure share this with them. #affordablearchitecture

Another inspiring affordable living project from Peris+Toral Architectes. Be sure to use the hashtag #affordablearchitecture for your projects to show up in the feed! www.detail.de/de_en/sozial...

Sahar Azari (front right), myself (next to Sahar), our team at Saharchitects and our partners celebrating acquiring an affordable housing project in Luxembourg. A challenge we are looking forward to working on! #affordablearchitecture

It was nice to forget about the worries of the world for a little while and just hang around with my two year old stallion, Estival. Incredible weather for November in Germany! #sporthorses #sporthorsebreeding

I’ve been avoiding the “blame game” because I’m just not ready for it, but this professor is brilliantly insightful about what just happened. “Trump played identity politics like a fiddle.” youtu.be/nno64FGj8d0?...

Architects, engineers and contractors can do what we can to create affordable yet inspiring homes, but we can’t control the banks. An interesting study showing how banking deregulation has led to a boom and bust real estate market. #affordablearchitecture papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Sticking to my principles and moving forward, I want to share this ongoing research project called “Build Simply” (Einfach Bauen) from the Technical University of Munich. Reducing complexity and therefore costs and greenhouse gas emissions. #affordablearchitecture youtu.be/2U5cxosyP9Y?...

I‘m back after going dark this week. As I told my architecture students, there is still a lot we can do to keep moving in the right direction regardless of who or what is sitting in the White House. 😖 Just have to stay focused on what we can control and contribute. 💫🍀