In the town of Barichara, deep in the Andes mountains, Julio Leon is building a three-room house. It’s made mostly out of ...

Attitudes to earthen homes need to change to prevent millions of them being replaced by buildings made from more environmentally damaging materials, warn scientists. The researchers found that the ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A small wall built with Compressed Earthen Bricks (CEBs) on Vine Street is trying to shake up the home construction industry. The wall was built by Civic Saint, as a proof of ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — If you’re looking for an interesting place to stay in New Mexico, an earthen home could be your next stop. AirBnB offers several of these eco-friendly homes in the Land of ...

Outfitted with a rocket stove and sealed with linseed oil and beeswax, enter this earthen dome house in the high desert of Southern California home. The following is an excerpt from Lloyd Kahn’s Small ...

Filming finished Sunday on Ignacio’s newest, soon-to-be-famous earthen home. In September, Shalina Luna and her daughter, Joli Galvan, residents just south of Ignacio, embarked on a warp-speed project ...

Imagine you arrive at a hillside retreat in the Pacific Northwest right when the evening fog starts to move in. You touch the walls and they’re cool. The colors ...

Japanese firm Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects has unveiled a beautiful round home that is wrapped in a spiraling rooftop garden. The family home, which is located on a remote Japanese island, was built ...

Imagine putting some dirt from your yard into a machine and watching it come out the other end as a dense block that can be used to construct a home. This isn’t a fantasy — one San Antonio-based ...

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 ...

An eco-conscious residence being billed as the San Antonio area’s first modern “rammed earth” home has hit the market with a $435,000 price tag. Rammed earth is an ancient building technique that’s ...