Around the World, These Building Solutions Keep Things Local

Designers are finding sustainable building solves close to home—in ancient practices and cutting-edge innovations alike.
Nature

Sustainable Construction Techniques with Earthen Materials

Earthen materials have re-emerged as sustainable alternatives to conventional construction due to their low embodied energy, carbon sequestration potential and capacity to utilise locally available ...
The Norman Transcript

A groundbreaking build

An innovative collaboration between the University of Oklahoma College of Architecture’s Sustainable Building Program and Cleveland County Habitat for Humanity celebrated a major milestone Saturday ...
archpaper

Why a sustainable material changing the game in Europe hasn’t landed in the U.S. market

Lola Ben-Alon experiments with digital earth-fiber basket weaving at GSAPP. (Courtesy GSAPP Natural Materials Lab/Omer Mohamed Gorashi) “I don’t have any expectations that we will be building ...