RT @tmccormick
@leashless @Twitter @mattereum "Nothing was given me of which I have not rendered some account," #Thoreau archly remarks on his house-building/living balance-sheet, in Walden (1854). Likewise I aim to account for & build my next home #Mendocello, and @mattereum to build for the World. https://archive.org/details/waldenorlifei00thor/page/65/mode/1up?view=theater

"Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses."
—#AbdulrazakGurnah, By the Sea (2001). (#NobelPrizeLiterature 2021 winner). https://archive.org/details/bysea00gurn/page/1/mode/2up?q=%22Sometimes+I+think+it+is+my+fate+to+live+in+the+wreckage+and+confusion+of+crumbling+houses%22&view=theater
Left: breaking down a free 28ft (8.5m) trailer, in order to build myself a new house on the chassis—see #Mendocello house project https://www.tmccormick.org/projects/mendocello #Architecture #MobileDwelling #VehicleResidency #SelfBuild #DIYarchitecture