Does earth architecture have a place in the 21st-century world? + 3. ... AVEI has invented a type of compressed earth brick fabricated with a series of manual and mechanized block presses.

The earth brick barn house is surrounded by six walled gardens, four of which will be used as leisure spaces, while two will serve as allotments to grow food for visiting artists. Meanwhile, acres of ...

Brick, stone, and terra-cotta, products that have the solidity and hue of earth, have timidly but perceptibly snuck back into New York’s repertoire of architectural ambitions.

Essentially, it’s a type of masonry, like stoneworks or brick walls. Gather nearby dirt — it can even be from the site you’re building on — and build the wooden forms that will shape the earth into ...

The new lookbook for architects by WIENERBERGER impressively presents the architectural quality of contemporary brick architecture: an award-winning and forward-looking source of material inspiration.

Jean Dethier believes that rich nations suffer from “collective amnesia” about the value of raw earth. The Belgian architect and former adviser for architectural exhibitions at the Pompidou ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jean Dethier believes that rich nations suffer from “collective amnesia” about the value of raw earth ...