For millennia, people have made durable homes from whatever is nearby. You're probably familiar with adobe, that smooth brown material that lots of us equate with architecture in the American ...

Baking in the warmth of California’s Cumaya Valley stand three small structures made of an ancient building material: cob. The material is a mixture of clay-heavy soil, straw, sand and water that — ...

Engineering professor Mark Aschheim launched students in key research that underpins new cob building code. Engineering professor launched students in key research that underpins new cob building code ...

A ll of us have heard of mud walls, possibly the wall material for majority of standing structures in India today including all rural buildings. Of course, the increasing presence of burnt bricks and ...

From earthships to container homes, sustainable architecture only continues to get more popular. One type of building that's making its way out of the off-grid margins is the cob house. Made of a ...

Storms and torrential rain have brought devastation to the South West in recent months. Among those counting the cost of the damage have been people who live in or run businesses in buildings made ...

The villagers of Blewbury maintain one of the traditional features of the chalk landscapes, cob walls, of which only a few remain, writes ELIZABETH EDWARDS Keeping a village spick and span is a ...