Rammed earth is one of humanity’s oldest methods of construction, packing natural raw components like dirt, chalk, and lime into a hard material resembling adobe. But where adobe requires dry weather ...

Rammed earth, as humble and ancient a building material as you might find, could be back in vogue in these eco-conscious times. All it takes is a thick mixture of water, gravel and earth poured into ...

In some parts of the world, there are entire cities made of earth. It’s one of the oldest building techniques there is: Scoop up the mix of clay and sand and silt that lies beneath the topsoil, pack ...

Have you been dying to know what rammed earth is? Well, today is your lucky day. Alternative builder / programmer Richard Schave is here to explain it to us… Rammed earth is an ancient building ...

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 ...

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.

June 5, 2009 Every child learns early on that moist sand is the key to building a sturdy sandcastle. Now researchers at Durham University have studied this principle so it can be better applied to an ...

The virtues of rammed earth as a building material are featured in a story . The photo of Harvard's built with rammed earth, makes a compelling argument for its beauty. So do the ones of 's ...

In remote Pilbara, an arid, sparsely populated region in the north of Western Australia, a new zig-zag structure is visible from the sky, cutting into a small expanse of vivid green grass. What you ...

In the lush South Indian village of Vengola, architecture firm Wallmakers has just completed a sculptural rammed earth home that looks like a natural extension of the landscape. Commissioned by a ...

The beauty of Mother Nature commands center stage in Ascaya’s fourth completed Inspiration home. “There aren’t a lot of homes that look like this in the valley,” Ascaya sales manager Darin Marques ...

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.