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Check Out These Surreal Shots of Arctic Hunting Cabins
Barrow Cabins, a photo series by Seattle-based photographer Eirik Johnson, depicts homebuilt Alaskan hunting cabins during the seasonal extremes far above the Arctic Circle. Built by the native Iñupiat people, the hunting cabins are vernacular shelters built of cast-off and found materials, used for only part of the year. The result: immaculate, paired images of vernacular structures amid the Arctic’s climactic extremes. Click through to see the photos!
Emmanuelle Moureaux, a French architect in Japan, takes the idea of vernacular influence and flips it on its head with color, transparency, and “conceptual distillation.”
EDITOR’S PICK: Sugamo Shinkin Bank (Shimura Branch)in Tokyo.
Our review of the documentary Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio. And don’t miss the trailer.
This jaunty green country house rests on the footprint of a former shepherd’s residence. The inverted roof helps cross-ventilation and carries rainwater from the gutters to a cistern below.
