The beauty of Mother Nature commands center stage in Ascaya’s fourth completed Inspiration home. “There aren’t a lot of homes that look like this in the valley,” Ascaya sales manager Darin Marques ...

Rammed earth homes aren’t a new fad. In fact, rammed earth construction was taking place in 2,000 B.C. in Mesopotamia and ancient China. Parts of the Great Wall of China are built of rammed earth and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Layers of soil matching the landscape form the brutalist retreat in Todos Santos. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a ...

Without a neighbor in sight, the retreat’s sprawling desert setting lends itself to framed vignettes with an open flame. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our ...

When entrepreneur Sandy Lawrence set out to build a home on the side of a rocky hill overlooking Napa Valley, she envisioned something that looked like it was growing out of the landscape. So she ...