As part of our Building with Cob series, we've put together an overview of cob and other traditional earthen building materials used around the world, including adobe and rammed earth. Building with ...

Architectural Digest editorial staff were not involved with the creation of this content. Materials tell stories about people, memories, and places. But when placed in the hands of an architect who ...

When we recently featured Tuckey Design’s rammed earth house in rural Wiltshire, we found ourselves wanting to learn more ...

People built with what they could reach: stone from the hillside, timber from nearby forests, earth from the ground beneath ...

under your feet, and it doesn’t come with all the carbon baggage that other [building] materials come with,” says studio founder Jonathan Tuckey. As a building technique, rammed earth—which combines ...

When Marcus Miner and Tim Miller drive from their home in Las Cruces, N.M., to the land they own in the Galisteo Basin Preserve 14 miles south of Santa Fe, they travel past rugged ancient lava fields.

BROOKINGS, S.D. - An Australian architectural professor visited South Dakota State University in late April to advise on how to preserve a 90-year-old rammed earth experimental building on campus.

In response to some of the challenges of climate change, the building industry is turning to some throwback techniques to reduce site impact, but also create “thermal” structures that promote passive ...

Architect Davey McEathron’s first go at the building style incorporates ambitious curves, a mix of materials, and a ...

OUTSIDER - a magazine that transcends boundaries has launched an architectural competition that encourages exploration of the significant potential of earth as a building material. The technique is ...

It's a mud, mud, mud, mud, world in Vienna where BÜRO KLK gets heavy while renovating a Japanese restaurant. Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From a "rammed earth" house in Jones, to a made-over classic mid-century modern home in Oklahoma City's Edgemere Heights, to a ...