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"The turf hut is built with a central framework of two pairs of bent poles tied together. The rest of the walls lean against these. Birch bark and turf make up the final exterior layers." (cited from an exhibition panel)
Abisko, Sweden.
cave dwellings in eastern turkey. interesting that they have windows on the caves. anyway, it was nice to get this reflection in the window... rocks don't reflect too well on their own.
The Sutton Dwellings Trust exemplifies a late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century situation that still occurs today: the collision of philanthropy, classism, the need for housing the poor, city planning, and fierce local resistance of the wealthy to having the poor live anywhere near them. Archives in London and the M25 Area explains that William Richard Sutton “ran a carrier business from Golden Lane, Finsbury and built up a huge personal fortune through wise investments and business expansion. When he died in 1900, he left £1,500,000 for the provision of model low-rented dwellings for occupation by the poor of London and other towns and populous places.” That £1,500,000 probaby had the purchasing and political power of £150,000,000 today. Patricia L. Garside, who describes the Sutton Model Dwellings Trust as “the wealthiest housing trust in England,” argues that a major reason this generally successful philanthropic enterprise managed to “build comparatively few dwellings before 1939” lay in the strategies of the rich and powerful, who used every resource available to contain “the potentially disruptive features of the trust,” and these strategies involved “the courts, the Attorney General, and central and local government.” Nonetheless, the Trust's funds, determination, and lawyers managed to build handsome, successful housing that has lasted to the present day in London and other parts of the United Kingdom