The plain upon which Abu Shouk camp sits was already a dry place before tens of thousands of people forced from their homes in Darfur flocked there for safety. But the recent shortage of water on that ...

I enjoyed Patrick Bingham-Hall’s article on architecture for sustainability and climate change in the tropics (“Club Tropicana”, House and Home, August 23). But was alarmed to read of building blocks ...

To stay cool during the warm weekend, children took a turn rolling around in the mud — and the history — during the annual Mud Mania: A Celebration of Adobe at Long Beach’s Rancho Los Cerritos ...

Long before modern materials, people had to build homes using the items around them. Long before modern materials, people had to build homes and structures using the items around them. Brush and ...

Regarding the letter from Jane Swan from Delabole, Cornwall, (“Recycled building blocks? Stick to mud and straw”, August 30) cob-and-thatch cottage construction was indeed a fine example of the use of ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Santa Fe is North America’s birthplace of smearing walls with mud we now call stucco. Long before Puritan ...

Beneath the arms of aged trees outside of the Gutiérrez-Hubbell House in Albuquerque’s South Valley on Tuesday, men and women in broad-brimmed hats knelt and pressed a clay, sand and straw mixture ...

Historically, houses made of straw have not fared well, but University of Michigan Art, Design and Environment Professor Joe Trumpey and his students intend to make history. “It’s the first official U ...