Nepal could benefit from earthquake-proof houses developed by Kibbutz Lotan from renewable materials and ancient techniques, a guest writer reports. The Lotan buildings are constructed from straw ...

Watch as I create 100 mud bricks using primitive tools and traditional methods to prepare for building our house walls! 🧱🌿 I crafted a brick mold from wood, measuring 15x20 cm, using split logs, ...

Huffing and puffing can't blow down this house down. One man is building a house here in East Texas made entirely out of straw bale and mud plaster. He says he got the idea after traveling and ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Santa Fe is North America’s birthplace of smearing walls with mud we now call stucco. Long before Puritan ...

We print her essay in part here in the Curiosity Gap Blog, where she talks about the beauty of imperfection. Building an adobe wall is slow and methodical. It’s the kind of work I get lost in. The tan ...

Historically, houses made of straw have not fared well, but University of Michigan Art, Design and Environment Professor Joe Trumpey and his students intend to make history. “It’s the first official U ...