As an architect, this type of architecture is the most difficult, when you have to keep things as minimal and simple as possible but still keep it practical. I personally find so much beauty in these buildings... it brings people back to their origins, to what they really need and excludes what is unnecessary and superfluous.
@Element Air Absolutely. If everyone stands in the same spot and takes the same scenic view with the same light and focus, yes, that's just "what you see"-- it's a snapshot. Yet a photograph can be as personal and as individual as a watercolor sketch, which is why we recognize the work of great photographers as being theirs, and while another photographer can copy their methods, just like learning to paint or write by copying a master, you can't copy the artist's mind. The trouble is that photography is a little like the piano--anyone can make a noise with it. But we recognize immediately when someone plays who understands the instrument and understands music.
6 років тому+3
I agree, I took a deep breath when I heard it to let it sink in. :)
Film has only the ability of 6 f stops but eyes have 9 f stop equivalent my instructor in creative photography stated! This is why photographs cannot capture all the essence there.
Kirsten... I'm happy to see how many people comment about how beautifully filmed all your videos are ... and the sense of peace you bring. They are so serene ... as well as informative, and such a break from the incessant sensationalism brought to us by ANYTHING on television. I thank you.
"You can hear the birds fly." Kirsten, you do not bring us videos or houses, you bring us visual poems. I have been watching this channel now for several years and have never seen a boring or bad video. Thank you so much. I hope you continue doing this for as long as you desire.
Kirsten, you and your family have the dream life. I envy you all! In a good way. You know how to live and work and make it all so worth it all. It is sucking the marrow out of life. You all got it down! Keep the videos and the travel coming. Your kids are so lucky to have you both as parents....they are getting the experience of a lifetime....to be so lucky!
That is true. She just doesn't come in the way of the story that the people tell her. I love that she brings her kids to every filming and to see them interact with the elements is so fulfilling.
It's very peaceful and I admire the choices their family has made for the land. Greece is a lovely country and the waters are breathtaking. My grandfather was born in the mountains and moved to the US in 1908. Our families were reunited just a few years ago.
One of those rare houses that actually felt like a lived space, frequently used, and not a vanity project. You could see how the ideals of simplicity were actually being lived here.
Oh I'm so jealous of this peaceful and wonderful place, of course I wholeheartedly endorse it to the family. I love Greece. We will spend our holidays in Kallithea on Samos this year. Yes Greece is beautiful to the kneeling.
This was a beautiful place. The primitive, simple, plain, free, Gorgeous stone. The sinks. The walls. Just right. Thank you for bringing the world to us.
I am mesmerised, not only buy the stunning place, but even more by the elegance of the idea and really unique solutions adopted. There is such a respect for the concept of beauty and for the place, that has something amazing. It is very simple, yet so profound. I more than love this
Dear Kirsten and Family, I have enjoyed your adventures so much over the years that I just had to say Thank You! Right now my heart is on Kea island in this wonderful house that can teach us so much. When the owner mentioned that it was so quiet you could hear the birds fly I just lost my heart. Again many thanks. Keep up the great work. Sincerely Dave.
The education of LIFE is what I garner from your poetry Kirsten. You and your husband have discovered a way to take an ordinary day and turn it into an adventure! This video of this "neighborhood" [I love the way they put this name to their property] is so relaxing. I am saving it to devour again - I say devour because this is the cream on top of the dessert! Thank you for your videos where UA-cam becomes more than entertainment - it's a beautiful way to see life.
Just had a very stressful day. Watching this was so calming and de-stressing , even the brothers' voices were calming. Loved how they made everything simple and yet everything was beautiful. Thank you for this video.
Love your channel and have probably seen hundreds of homes but this one is by far my favorite. This place is a dream. Thank you for your documentary work, the world needs it.
This is my dream. I spent time living in Greece and then in Albania along the coast. Though I am back in the US and first looking toward building a home here, I see it as a stepping stone so that one day I can build my final home somewhere over there.
6 років тому+49
This video was so interesting and so inspiring to watch. I also realised how similar Greek people and us Spaniards are! Loved it. Thank you so much for sharing. :)
Allen Hare Thomas K I'm so surprised people don't show a lot more tropical areas in the world, with all the absolutely gorgeous vegetation. It's my dream to live off grid and somewhat simply in a place like Florida, Costa Rica, Panama, Hawaii, Malasia or Indonesia. I love to be in all the rich vegetation with privacy. The kitchen would be upstairs with a huge deck to watch the wildlife, maybe monkeys 🐒 swinging by and exotic birds like Toucans!
I was an exchange student to Argentina and they have something similar to this 'out door kitchen' idea. It's called a quincho (kincho) and it's usually flanked on 3 sides and open to the elements on the 4th. It contains a bbq/grill space with chimney and always has a nice long table with enough chairs to seat 20 people or more. Fantastic idea for at least 3 seasons out of the year! They've got something very similar on Guam too, but I don't know what they call it.
Another great upload Kirsten~! What an inspirational vicarious viewing vacation! I love his attention and appreciation for sight lines, weather and light. You did a great job capturing what it's like to live there, with examples of his favorite places to sit and his reasons for doing so. It really helped translate the experience, viscerally, and logically.
"Listening to the inner void..." or voice...? ... the inner All, filled with all that really matters...the music of the spheres. Beautifully, thoughtfully, perfectly made, all of it, including your video. A work of love. Thank you.
I love these videos because at first when I see some houses I think, "I don't really get it" or..."it's too simple, why'd they do it that way?" and the more they explain their appreciation for the landscape, not adulterating it with too much stuff or structure. Keeping things simple and the thought into each design, it makes me think differently. Appreciate things and be more open minded. I guess, focusing less on the structure itself and more about how it blends with the environment. i sometimes forget that and this channel helps me to appreciate that talent and imagination doesn't have to be showy or ostentatious, but simple and honest.
I AM A HUGE FAN of yours, love the videos and I can see you are every time re transforming the meaning of small spaces and trying to express it in all the possible ways. I live and a small flat in London (family of 6) and if I manage to apply from time to time the ideas coming from your videos. Well done!!
i traveled for years and rather than collect trinkets (and i have a few) i decided to collect ideas - the visual poems referenced in another comment - that i could make part of my home.... i didn't make it to Greece but now i want to go :-) this is beautiful and natural and relaxing... i'm starting neighborhood's at home now :-) thank you.
This design cuts right down to the essence of architecture. The essentials of framing views and rooms (neighborhoods). How the things we make are interogatory between our selves and our place.
GOOD LIVING not in Greece. Rain is not something you see often especially in summer time. But I understand what you say, it would have been better with a roof over the kitchen area.
Wonderful. Houses are not just about rooms, they are about spaces, light, and their relationship with 'outside'. You need to live in a place before you build/restore in order to get a true feel for the light, the views, and the weather. It's time to do another restoration :)
Very well done documentary! You are truly a professional and an artist. I have watched two of your videos so far, and found them thoroughly fulfilling.
Perfect from April to October! The rest of the year back to the States for Thanksgiving and Xmas with my grand kids [that I'm hoping to eventually get one day.. if my son works on it!!]
I'm so surprised people don't show a lot more tropical areas in the world, with all the absolutely gorgeous vegetation. It's my dream to live off grid and somewhat simply in a place like Florida, Costa Rica, Panama, Hawaii, Malasia or Indonesia. I love to be in all the rich vegetation with privacy. The kitchen would be upstairs with a huge deck to watch the wildlife, maybe monkeys 🐒 swinging by and exotic birds like Toucans!
In New Zealand/Aotearoa the man of the house used to build his own family house. Most families had a plot of land out of town to holiday to as well, of course near the beach. We call these domiciles a bach (said like batch), plural baches. They are simple like this one is and square but being Kiwi they are normally made of wood.
In ancient Egypt, among the peasant classes, when a man wanted to marry a woman, he would build a house. When it was finished, he would propose. She would carefully inspect the house, and make her decision. If she said yes, the house became her property, not his, just like an engagement ring.
nice little place for beach life. Is it available for vacationer? listing on Air B&B? I remember the little place I stayed in Perssia, Santorini had the "half" open door from the top to the middle. It's such a relaxing environment, hopefully there are supermarkets near by. I spend 4 days in Rhodes last July, I love the history of it.
Great modest use of landscape, language of traditional building, and this particular site and its materials. I wonder how well solar panels and cooking devices would do, when you shelter them from the wind.
Beautiful. Looking at all those stone terraces, built centuries (millennia?) ago by hand and at great physical expense, can you not help wonder what happened to the productivity of this land? The descendants of the families that abandoned these places for Athens and other cities are now enjoying the void left behind, for quiet contemplation and retreat. Is a new generation not returning to replant the olive trees?
I loved this This taps into my early reading of Clean Straw For Nothing by George Johnson In real life, Johnson abandoned a conventional career in Australia in journalism, and moved to a Greek island which was a magnet at the time for artists and writers. The novel Clean Straw for Nothing similarly tells the story of a journalist (David Meredith) who relocates to a Greek island, but fails to find the answers he seeks after even 13 years. When I think about it, I have always been attracted to some kind of sirens call (and the examples do link well to the Myth). Books like On Walden Pond by Henry David Thoreau or Razors Edge by Somerset Maugham or Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux although these ended badly I guess it’s the risk you take for responding to some inner compass
![Lp. Сердце Вселенной #60 РОЖДЕНИЕ ЛОЛОЛОШКИ [Финал] • Майнкрафт](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/YoR0pAV9FVQ/mqdefault.jpg)
As an architect, this type of architecture is the most difficult, when you have to keep things as minimal and simple as possible but still keep it practical. I personally find so much beauty in these buildings... it brings people back to their origins, to what they really need and excludes what is unnecessary and superfluous.
I just bought a small house on a Greek small island and I am very happy that I found this video, as it describes 100% my philosophy
Glad it was helpful!
@@kirstendirksen you should explore Ammouliani Island in Greece
Man that roof got me. I'm blown away by the simplicity but absolutely amazingly!!!! Thank you!!
"a photograph is exactly what you see and the drawing is what you see in what you see" there is something so brilliant about that sentence.
I thought so too
@Element Air Absolutely. If everyone stands in the same spot and takes the same scenic view with the same light and focus, yes, that's just "what you see"-- it's a snapshot. Yet a photograph can be as personal and as individual as a watercolor sketch, which is why we recognize the work of great photographers as being theirs, and while another photographer can copy their methods, just like learning to paint or write by copying a master, you can't copy the artist's mind. The trouble is that photography is a little like the piano--anyone can make a noise with it. But we recognize immediately when someone plays who understands the instrument and understands music.
I agree, I took a deep breath when I heard it to let it sink in. :)
Film has only the ability of 6 f stops but eyes have 9 f stop equivalent my instructor in creative photography stated! This is why photographs cannot capture all the essence there.
...the drawing is what you see in what you are looking at...
THIS is the essence of the Cycladic way of living. Simple elegant and not disturbing the land. Perfect!
Kirsten... I'm happy to see how many people comment about how beautifully filmed all your videos are ... and the sense of peace you bring. They are so serene ... as well as informative, and such a break from the incessant sensationalism brought to us by ANYTHING on television. I thank you.
I love this, I too live in a natural setting alone, and nature is my music! I’m so at peace,
"You can hear the birds fly."
Kirsten, you do not bring us videos or houses, you bring us visual poems. I have been watching this channel now for several years and have never seen a boring or bad video. Thank you so much. I hope you continue doing this for as long as you desire.
@khai I believe they call that hip hop in the hood.
Kirsten, you and your family have the dream life. I envy you all! In a good way. You know how to live and work and make it all so worth it all. It is sucking the marrow out of life. You all got it down! Keep the videos and the travel coming. Your kids are so lucky to have you both as parents....they are getting the experience of a lifetime....to be so lucky!
That is true. She just doesn't come in the way of the story that the people tell her. I love that she brings her kids to every filming and to see them interact with the elements is so fulfilling.
@4ourfutureinfinity never said they were numb nutz
…figuring out how to do things in a minimal way is a type of luxury. Thank you.
It's very peaceful and I admire the choices their family has made for the land. Greece is a lovely country and the waters are breathtaking. My grandfather was born in the mountains and moved to the US in 1908. Our families were reunited just a few years ago.
One of those rare houses that actually felt like a lived space, frequently used, and not a vanity project. You could see how the ideals of simplicity were actually being lived here.
Another good reason to love Greece
Oh I'm so jealous of this peaceful and wonderful place, of course I wholeheartedly endorse it to the family. I love Greece. We will spend our holidays in Kallithea on Samos this year. Yes Greece is beautiful to the kneeling.
Nice clear picture, very good filming, enjoyable narrative. Lovely video. Thankyou, I enjoyed remembering times in Greece by watching this 😍😘
This was a beautiful place. The primitive, simple, plain, free, Gorgeous stone. The sinks. The walls. Just right. Thank you for bringing the world to us.
The designer is confident, brilliant. Just love his primal attachment to the land, to the mission, to the brief :-)
I’m in love with this property specially the one like a cave with a window view of the magical island and ocean 🥰😍😍😍😍
I am mesmerised, not only buy the stunning place, but even more by the elegance of the idea and really unique solutions adopted. There is such a respect for the concept of beauty and for the place, that has something amazing. It is very simple, yet so profound. I more than love this
Dear Kirsten and Family, I have enjoyed your adventures so much over the years that I just had to say Thank You! Right now my heart is on Kea island in this wonderful house that can teach us so much. When the owner mentioned that it was so quiet you could hear the birds fly I just lost my heart. Again many thanks. Keep up the great work. Sincerely Dave.
The education of LIFE is what I garner from your poetry Kirsten. You and your husband have discovered a way to take an ordinary day and turn it into an adventure! This video of this "neighborhood" [I love the way they put this name to their property] is so relaxing. I am saving it to devour again - I say devour because this is the cream on top of the dessert! Thank you for your videos where UA-cam becomes more than entertainment - it's a beautiful way to see life.
Just had a very stressful day. Watching this was so calming and de-stressing , even the brothers' voices were calming. Loved how they made everything simple and yet everything was beautiful. Thank you for this video.
You’re very good at hearing the stories and you provide the vehicle they need without interfering with them. Simply lovely work. Cheers.
Awesome place and the owner seems he have peaceful positive energy
Love your channel and have probably seen hundreds of homes but this one is by far my favorite. This place is a dream. Thank you for your documentary work, the world needs it.
This is my favorite one so far. Love it. A small shop/garage on the other side of the hill, out of sight, and it's perfect.
Absolutely beautiful video! The essence of how to live peacefully, without all the "noise" is truly magical!
So much texture and life to your videos, really amazing hide away 😌 ..just bliss.
This is so inspiring in so many levels... And a great minimal way to shoot it too! Thanks for sharing this with us all. 💟
My favorite quote from this film: "You can hear the birds fly."
That is profound. The luxury is the void which is harder and harder to find.
txs for coming in my country. love from greece for all the world.love and peace
This is my dream. I spent time living in Greece and then in Albania along the coast. Though I am back in the US and first looking toward building a home here, I see it as a stepping stone so that one day I can build my final home somewhere over there.
This video was so interesting and so inspiring to watch. I also realised how similar Greek people and us Spaniards are! Loved it. Thank you so much for sharing. :)
Sandra Por supuesto, chica!
We are both European and Mediterranean, it makes sense
What a wonderful place. Their design philosophy is spot on.
Thank You
Allen Hare
Thomas K
I'm so surprised people don't show a lot more tropical areas in the world, with all the absolutely gorgeous vegetation. It's my dream to live off grid and somewhat simply in a place like Florida, Costa Rica, Panama, Hawaii, Malasia or Indonesia. I love to be in all the rich vegetation with privacy. The kitchen would be upstairs with a huge deck to watch the wildlife, maybe monkeys 🐒 swinging by and exotic birds like Toucans!
This would have to be the best tiny place I have seen. I am inspired to build one of my own. Absolutely gorgeous
I love this house and the fact that extra rooms can be added if you want them. It's an amazing area with beautiful views.
the terracing is marvelous! what a serene and peaceful oasis. i can just imagine it as it was settled hundreds of years ago. what a life!
I was an exchange student to Argentina and they have something similar to this 'out door kitchen' idea. It's called a quincho (kincho) and it's usually flanked on 3 sides and open to the elements on the 4th. It contains a bbq/grill space with chimney and always has a nice long table with enough chairs to seat 20 people or more. Fantastic idea for at least 3 seasons out of the year! They've got something very similar on Guam too, but I don't know what they call it.
Another great upload Kirsten~!
What an inspirational vicarious viewing vacation!
I love his attention and appreciation for sight lines, weather and light.
You did a great job capturing what it's like to live there, with examples of his favorite places to sit and his reasons for doing so.
It really helped translate the experience, viscerally, and logically.
Η απλότητα της ομορφιάς... ένα με την φύση...
"Listening to the inner void..." or voice...? ... the inner All, filled with all that really matters...the music of the spheres. Beautifully, thoughtfully, perfectly made, all of it, including your video. A work of love. Thank you.
Every so often, @kristen Dirksen, you make a video that truly inspires me and blows my mind. This is the latest one. Thanks Dirksen Team!
This is my all time favorite of alot of favorite videos of yours. I love this place. I love that you exist. Thank you
The flow of the story is so perfect. Kirsten, you are amazing.
I love these videos because at first when I see some houses I think, "I don't really get it" or..."it's too simple, why'd they do it that way?" and the more they explain their appreciation for the landscape, not adulterating it with too much stuff or structure. Keeping things simple and the thought into each design, it makes me think differently. Appreciate things and be more open minded. I guess, focusing less on the structure itself and more about how it blends with the environment. i sometimes forget that and this channel helps me to appreciate that talent and imagination doesn't have to be showy or ostentatious, but simple and honest.
this is a wonderful idea for two families to share one property and keep it in the family instead of simply selling it. well done.
Beautiful property. Love the house as well. Both complement each other.
Beautiful land.
Wow this is one of my favorite spaces you have shown so far.... and it provokes thought about so much ..thank you...well done!
Amazing once again and I am very happy that this time it is a video from my country.
I AM A HUGE FAN of yours, love the videos and I can see you are every time re transforming the meaning of small spaces and trying to express it in all the possible ways.
I live and a small flat in London (family of 6) and if I manage to apply from time to time the ideas coming from your videos. Well done!!
Brilliant design I love the simplicity
i traveled for years and rather than collect trinkets (and i have a few) i decided to collect ideas - the visual poems referenced in another comment - that i could make part of my home.... i didn't make it to Greece but now i want to go :-) this is beautiful and natural and relaxing... i'm starting neighborhood's at home now :-) thank you.
I could live there full time-no problem! Thank you for the great vids! ❤️
Most beautiful, simple and epicurean which both stimulates my thinking and inspires me deeply.
Thanks for sharing. It is beautiful.Good place to stay for greek islands holidays.
This is my favorite house. I'm a minimalist and history buff so I really like to rebuild of the old small houses, like the stone barn's I north spain.
This design cuts right down to the essence of architecture. The essentials of framing views and rooms (neighborhoods). How the things we make are interogatory between our selves and our place.
I definitely would have a roof over the kitchen so it can be used when it's pouring rain all day. It could rain 3 days straight!
GOOD LIVING not in Greece. Rain is not something you see often especially in summer time. But I understand what you say, it would have been better with a roof over the kitchen area.
Wonderful. Houses are not just about rooms, they are about spaces, light, and their relationship with 'outside'. You need to live in a place before you build/restore in order to get a true feel for the light, the views, and the weather. It's time to do another restoration :)
Very well done documentary! You are truly a professional and an artist. I have watched two of your videos so far, and found them thoroughly fulfilling.
The stone work is amazing
I love your videos, but this one touches me. Thank you!
Perfect from April to October!
The rest of the year back to the States for Thanksgiving and Xmas with my grand kids [that I'm hoping to eventually get one day.. if my son works on it!!]
"We are listening to the Void". A Zen Master couldn't have put it more beautifully.
Love their whole perspective, beautiful place
That's a beautiful place! What a gorgeous place to get away from every day life!
What a gorgeous place to live your whole life! ; )
Thank you for sharing this beautiful simplicity in such LOVELY surroundings! I really do love traveling vicariously through your videos! 😍
I'm so surprised people don't show a lot more tropical areas in the world, with all the absolutely gorgeous vegetation. It's my dream to live off grid and somewhat simply in a place like Florida, Costa Rica, Panama, Hawaii, Malasia or Indonesia. I love to be in all the rich vegetation with privacy. The kitchen would be upstairs with a huge deck to watch the wildlife, maybe monkeys 🐒 swinging by and exotic birds like Toucans!
In New Zealand/Aotearoa the man of the house used to build his own family house. Most families had a plot of land out of town to holiday to as well, of course near the beach. We call these domiciles a bach (said like batch), plural baches. They are simple like this one is and square but being Kiwi they are normally made of wood.
In ancient Egypt, among the peasant classes, when a man wanted to marry a woman, he would build a house. When it was finished, he would propose. She would carefully inspect the house, and make her decision. If she said yes, the house became her property, not his, just like an engagement ring.
I melted when I heard someone humming the music from Verano Azul. It fitted so well in the picture
Wow! Amazing location! This must have been a "working" vacation for you... Thank you for creating this!
Thank you for taking us to the places you love 🙏
awesome....congratulations on new expansion too....that's life goal right there sir
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication!
This is amazing! ... I love it!
Very nice house and view. Simplity and peace
WOW. Mindful living.
nice little place for beach life. Is it available for vacationer? listing on Air B&B?
I remember the little place I stayed in Perssia, Santorini had the "half" open door from the top to the middle. It's such a relaxing environment, hopefully there are supermarkets near by. I spend 4 days in Rhodes last July, I love the history of it.
Great modest use of landscape, language of traditional building, and this particular site and its materials.
I wonder how well solar panels and cooking devices would do, when you shelter them from the wind.
Beautiful scenery, land and get away home in this busy world.
This guy is deep! Love it! 😍🤗😎✌️🖖🤘🙏🏽
So thoughtfully done and beautiful.
Obviously there has been so much thought put on this tiny house which well worthed.
Remember when everyone had small homes?
Joe Provence no, when was that?
I do
Best house of your channel. Absurd.
I want holiday home jus like this !
Simplicity is hard work !
Magnificent and so simple at the same time!
KD's kids are lucky to grow up traveling all over.
Great work, perfect footage for the holidays :)
Beautiful. Looking at all those stone terraces, built centuries (millennia?) ago by hand and at great physical expense, can you not help wonder what happened to the productivity of this land? The descendants of the families that abandoned these places for Athens and other cities are now enjoying the void left behind, for quiet contemplation and retreat. Is a new generation not returning to replant the olive trees?
This is the place where i would love to live a die happily..thank u kirsten..
plant something on those teraces. olives or almonds. for 20 years, you could have a plantation,cheers.
food autonomy!
Petar Mackovic
I'm not so sure about transporting the fruits of the island to the mainland.
I don't think there is enough water for farming there.
Simplicity is key to a getaway. Daily life is too complicated. We can all do much better living with less
As a disabled pensioner. I live without. Less... that was decades ago. Great fun, life is so much better with nothing.
Interesting out look about discovering thing that were there all along. No distractions so you have the opportunity to notice the undiscovered.
What a beautiful inside, outside house.xx
Thank you so much for your amazing videos Kirsten, Happy New Year and Merry Christmas to you and your family :)
Beautiful sanctuary!
Interesting thoughts about home, simplicity and nature. Beautiful!
Kirsten, you are an artist.
I loved this This taps into my early reading of Clean Straw For Nothing by George Johnson In real life, Johnson abandoned a conventional career in Australia in journalism, and moved to a Greek island which was a magnet at the time for artists and writers. The novel Clean Straw for Nothing similarly tells the story of a journalist (David Meredith) who relocates to a Greek island, but fails to find the answers he seeks after even 13 years.
When I think about it, I have always been attracted to some kind of sirens call (and the examples do link well to the Myth). Books like On Walden Pond by Henry David Thoreau or Razors Edge by Somerset Maugham or Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux although these ended badly I guess it’s the risk you take for responding to some inner compass
I mean, things end badly when people stay in their shitty jobs and encumbered lives too...
Maybe it's just something about endings?