Without further delay, let’s continue our photo tour of some of the homes featured in Catherine Wanek’s The New Strawbale...

A beautiful anthem for the “minimalist” in us all… I was planning on writing a piece on climate change tonight, but found this video of French singer ZAZ so uplifting that I just couldn’t spoil the good...

“Natural building calls for organic shapes…” This sentence has been floating around my head for a while now. It’s time to tack this whirl of unpolished thoughts somewhere! Let’s start with nature: In nature, the straight line is a rare geometric phenomenon. In...

As I get ready to return to the states, I found some of my beloved books on natural building and traditional Greek architecture that are just too heavy to tag along. I took some time however to scan the images and texts that were most inspiring/instructional to me, and want to share them with...

Here are a couple of videos from my first day ever building with cob, back in March of 2008 at Proyecto San Isidro in Tlaxco, Mexico. While I participated mainly to get my feet muddy, it was an intensive natural building workshop that covered many types of materials: strawbale, cob, stone...