Imagine you arrive at a hillside retreat in the Pacific Northwest right when the evening fog starts to move in. You touch the walls and they’re cool. The colors ...

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 ...

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 ...

Radwa Rostom, founder and CEO of Hand Over Projects, launched her Cairo-based firm in 2016 with the mission of finding a balance between environmentally and socially responsible construction. They ...

Architectural Digest editorial staff were not involved with the creation of this content. Materials tell stories about people, memories, and places. But when placed in the hands of an architect who ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia have created a building material where rammed earth ...

Constrained by a lack of transportation and resources, vernacular architecture has started adapting the distinct strategy of utilizing local materials. By analyzing projects which have successfully ...

Layers of soil matching the landscape form the brutalist retreat in Todos Santos. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, ...