The house on San Salvador Avenue represents the very first time rammed earth’s been used on an affordable home prototype.

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 ...

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 ...

Constrained by a lack of transportation and resources, vernacular architecture has started adapting the distinct strategy of utilizing local materials. By analyzing projects which have successfully ...

A team from RMIT University, Australia, combined the durability of rammed earth—a construction technique used to make walls from compressed soil within a lattice of sticks or bamboo—with the ...

The first image that comes to the mind of many when you talk about rammed earth houses is the grass-thatched mud house synonymous with rural areas. Most people’s reaction is that there is no way one ...

Join us to learn the technique of rammed earth and plaster by intervening and transforming an abandoned tobacco house next to the Zaza River, in the central region of the island of Cuba. This is a ...

Architect Eddie Jones worked in ample unconventional design elements that make the Arizona heat more livable, while sneaking ...

Back in 2014, Nathan and Janelle, the owners at 23 Lavadero Road , just beyond Tesuque, were living in San Francisco’s Russian Hill district when suddenly their landlord raised their rent by 40 ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Azadeh Weber, 44, who built an accessory ...