Material Profile – Earth

Kevin Rowell: Material Profile – Earth (February 2010)
The Natural Builder 2 pages (332.6kb)

“Earth has been an important traditional material throughout the Americas, Africa, Europe and parts of Asia for thousands of years, and is used in a great variety of ways. Recently, the alternative building movement has developed a deeper technical understanding of the materials and their traditional applications, resulting in safer and stronger earthen building, sometimes by incorporating a judicious use of modern industrial materials and sometimes through…”

Materials Profile – Earth