On Sept. 8, Morocco endured its strongest earthquake in 120 years, registering a magnitude of 6.8. The earthquake’s epicenter was in the High Atlas Mountains, one of the country’s poorest regions. In ...

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 ...

Discover how contemporary architects are reviving earthen construction for more sustainable buildings using local materials.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elliott Hostetter, who lost his Altadena home to the Eaton fire, steps out of a SuperAdobe during a tour at the CalEarth Institute ...

Louise Cooke is a Trustee of Earth Building UK and Ireland - a charity promoting the understanding of earth as a building material. The epicentre was high in the Atlas Mountains. Entire villages have ...

Gallery opens April 30th at 7pm. Join us for a very special exhibition in the lobby of Higgins Hall from May 1st-7th! “Down to Earth: Indigenous Building Technologies” will feature the work of ...

Lola Ben-Alon experiments with digital earth-fiber basket weaving at GSAPP. (Courtesy GSAPP Natural Materials Lab/Omer Mohamed Gorashi) “I don’t have any expectations that we will be building ...