In 2021, Mathieu Munsch walked away from the “normal” script— rent, bills, loans, a regular job— and headed for a sloping meadow in northeast France to build something radically simple: a small home made from the earth under his feet, wood from nearby, and straw bales from local farmers. He kept it to 50 m² … Read more
At 76, Graham Liney is the quintessential jack-of-trades. He has bred potatoes, run restaurants, travelled the world, worked in television, and built his own house in Australia. He came to Australia in 1969 as an art student from England, and three years later he stumbled across Willow Vale Mill, a 1830s flour mill in New … Read more
Mr. Giovane has enclosed an entire condominium in Brazil with a dry-stacked stone wall. He has worked with this method for decades. It took him about six months of work, but he stayed on site for almost a year because of the rainy weather. These walls are made without the use of any binding material, … Read more
Woodstock is a self-sufficient, private house in Belgium, conceived as a vessel anchored along the riverbank. The project embodies the core principles of architecture as a form of transition within the construction culture towards a regenerative and post-carbon world. The architects say, “We believe systemic change in architecture must be learned through making. Woodstock became … Read more
When a Danish couple found a small rural property, all they saw was a dead field with exhausted soil, devoid of earthworms, the result of years of monoculture of grains and corn sprayed with pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides. So they began a patient process of building, rebuilding, and regenerating the soil. They started observing the … Read more
The Platform Hill pavilion, completed between 2022 and 2025, sits among the hills south of Chengdu and functions as a visitor destination and event space that capitalizes on scenic panoramas. The structure uses a series of interlocking timber arches clad with an earth berm that allows the building to blend into the landscape and echo … Read more