“glorification of an imagined unified Western Traditional Culture as the single objective best culture is a fascist red flag” and “a lot of modern vernacular architecture is boring, actively harmful to the mental health of people who live around it, destroying older buildings that had more personality, and shoddily built + as bland as possible for the ever profit-focused needs of capitalism” are concepts that can coexist
like. yes, be wary of Roman Statue Profile Pics decrying “modernity” on Twitter, but the idea that IKEAfying the world is somehow Progressive and if you don’t like it you MUST be far-right is just. bizarre
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"The Desert Flower" is a uniquely beautiful home, inspired by earth ship homes, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 5bds, 7ba, $3.754M + $41mo. HOA fee. (You can't even escape the HOA in the desert.)
This home is an amazing example of how beautifully adobe, stucco, stone and wood can be sculpted when you know what you're doing. Look at the glass roof above the beamed ceiling.
Look at this sunny, cozy little space to sit. That must be a light fixture above the table.
Lovely indoor patio is also a conservatory.
The kitchen cabinetry is built with various types of wood, perhaps salvaged. Wonder what they made the counters out of, they look so smooth. And, check out the kitchen sinks. There's even an exhaust hood fashioned from stucco.
This den has a built-in corner desk, a shelf inset in the wall, and some cool shaped windows.
This is a very large home and one of 7 baths has a large shower, a shelf, and a round bowl sink in a vanity that fits in perfectly with the style of the house. I like the shape of the door, too. It would fit my hips.
The primary bedroom is large, has lovely double doors to the garden, plus a lighted niche, small fireplace in the wall, and a cabinet. The scalloped ceiling is also interesting and ties in with the door.
Beautiful en-suite has a nice big vanity.
The cozy family room has a unique long triangular fireplace, a skylight, (this house gets a lot of natural light from the many skylights), plus a cool lofted area. Not the side table in the corner is built into the wall, plus there's a little shelf on the fireplace wall. There are also some built-ins on the left.
This is the entrance to steam room and sauna, with shower. What an interesting doors and look at the storm cloud window in the door. This is so cool.
The doors open to the sauna and steam rooms. Note the control panel on the right.
Another lovely sitting area with a great fireplace and doors to the patio are in a secondary bedroom.
This secondary bedrooms is spacious and has doors to the garden.
I love the wall and how the pebble design on fireplace mirrors the pattern.
Isn't this beautiful? A natural looking tub & shower with a fireplace. This would be my favorite bathroom.
Check out the shower. It has a built-in seat and a little shelf.
Outdoors is a lovely private pool.
Beautiful wildflowers grow in the yard. The home has 11 acres of land.
This is an amazing home, isn't it?
This is the guesthouse.
Patio and outdoor kitchen.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/41-Estrada-Calabasa-Santa-Fe-NM-87506/6845716_zpid/
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The four doorways, Pueblo Bonita, San Juan Co, NM. Photo: Don Page (2022). This masterpiece of Chacoan architecture was built around 850 CE
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“The animacy of the world is something we already know, but the language of animacy teeters on extinction-not just for Native peoples, but for everyone. Our toddlers speak of plants and animals as if they were people, extending to them self and intention and compassion-until we teach them not to. We quickly retrain them and make them forget. When we tell them that the tree is not a who, but an it, we make that maple an object; we put a barrier between us, absolving ourselves of moral responsibility and opening the door to exploitation. Saying it makes a living land into "natural resources." If a maple is an it, we can take up the chain saw. If a maple is a her, we think twice.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
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