Many of the residents of White Cliff, Australia live underground, and used mining equipment to dig extensive homes in the hillside to avoid the intense heat outside. Outside, the thermometer is often over 100 F in summer, although it once almost hit 122 F. But inside these submerged homes, it hovers between 68 and 72 … Read more
My friend B Sitkin recently uploaded this video he and his wife made many years ago at City of the Sun in Southern New Mexico. It documents many of the key events at the Build-a-thon and Symposium and features a number of my friends and fellow builders from that time. This event followed on the … Read more
Verena Maeder is an earth building artisan with 32 years experience constructing earth buildings. She first fell in love with natural building as a teenager, but because of the lack of formal training opportunities in this field she decided to pursue an education in architecture as well as building biology and ecology. In 2002 she … Read more
I have periodically corresponded with Matthew McCue, who has been building an earthbag house in Colorado with his wife, Rainee. Most recently he provided this update on their project: Well, we didn’t beat the snow, but we got it covered last week! The bond beam certainly took some creative thinking, but we pulled it off! … Read more
If you like looking at pictures of eye catching examples of natural buildings, a good place to do this is at www.pinterest.com where Sherry Broderick has posted over 400 of her favorites. I even found pictures of projects that both Owen Geiger and I had completed many years ago. I’ll give you a few examples … Read more
The 2023 Sharjah Architecture Triennial has a theme of The Beauty of Impermanence: An Architecture of Adaptability, which explores a relationship between scarcity, creativity and design. This will be on view until 10 March 2024 in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The triennial features 29 architects, designers and studios from 25 countries. According to the curator, “In the … Read more