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 ...

Cob construction has been used for thousands of years, but modern building codes have yet to catch up. Ziggy Liloia was the lead builder of this cob cottage at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in Missouri.

Fifteen students from the United States, Mexico and Europe have paid to camp out for a month in a man’s backyard in Taylor to learn an ancient building technique involving clay, sand and straw. They ...

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 ...

GREENWICH — The house at 323 Cognewaugh Road in Cos Cob was crafted in the tradition of Shingle style architecture, more recently known as the Nantucket style. Though it harkens to the late 19th ...