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 ...

Made with a new modular method, the handcrafted units reflect a desire to create a healthier relationship between people and planet. "My beginning in this life was in nature," Lia Albejante says, her ...

The first image that comes to the mind of many when you talk about rammed earth houses is the grass-thatched mud house synonymous with rural areas. Most people’s reaction is that there is no way one ...

You must have heard that everything old is new again. Well, that is just what is happening with rammed earth construction. This method of building dating back thousands of years ago is undercover in ...

Radwa Rostom, founder and CEO of Hand Over Projects, launched her Cairo-based firm in 2016 with the mission of finding a balance between environmentally and socially responsible construction. They ...

Architectural Digest editorial staff were not involved with the creation of this content. Materials tell stories about people, memories, and places. But when placed in the hands of an architect who ...

Andrew Crisp Elizabeth Jacox speaks with the crowd about John and Marjorie Fairchild's rammed earth home. A home constructed almost entirely of dirt sits just above Boise's Hill Road. But unlike other ...