BROOKINGS, S.D. - An Australian architectural professor visited South Dakota State University in late April to advise on how to preserve a 90-year-old rammed earth experimental building on campus.

The historical journey of construction also tells the story of humanity. The enduring examples from the past reveal insights into their specific contexts, and the remnants that have survived the ...

Rammed earth is the descendant of ancient construction techniques like adobe or cob building. It can be used to build walls for many kinds of buildings, from houses to museums and even cemeteries. The ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. - An Australian architectural professor visited South Dakota State University in late April to advise on how to preserve a 90-year-old rammed earth experimental building on campus.

It's a mud, mud, mud, mud, world in Vienna where BÜRO KLK gets heavy while renovating a Japanese restaurant. Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia ...

Rammed earth construction has long been considered a super efficient and sustainable building method, but it isn’t usually this gorgeous. Meet the Earth House, a thoroughly modern take on this ...

A building method as old as dirt is being re-examined as a 'new' and viable modern construction material. Compressed soil, also known as rammed earth, is a method of construction that dates back ...

The author describes his experiences in the 1940’s using rammed earth construction techniques to build a rammed earth house, an oddball decision at the time, and how well the structure has served him ...