This week I had architecture students reading about rural and remote spaces. Among other things, they looked at the terrific work of Rural Studio, Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost, and essays by Wendell Berry. I also included this interview with Berry, which cites an abbreviated version of his “agrarian values.” I asked students to identify the ideas that are not explicitly environmental, in the familiar green-rhetoric sense, and to speculate about why they might be part o...
