Natural Building

MARCH 6, 2020

Studio Rick Joy’s Tucson Mountain House was constructed from rammed earth an is a mix of modern minimalism and vernacular construction. This house is one of 250 buildings in The Art of Earth Architecture: Past, Present, Future , a new book by Jean Dethier and Princeton Architectural Press.

Architecture 72

Architecture Tucson Housing Feasibility 72

Natural Building

DECEMBER 18, 2022

I was teaching geology in Tucson at the time and living in a house that functioned miserably in the Tucson climate. I heard that there was going to be a lecture series at the university architecture college about design for arid climates. I was learning a lot, but I just didn’t have any real training in architecture.

Nebraska 98

Nebraska Housing US Tucson 98

Natural Building

OCTOBER 8, 2022

People with no historic or cultural connection to adobe or people who would never mingle culturally now possess this architecture—because it’s cool to have an adobe home.”. The ‘adobe tax’ has been so detrimental to earthen and vernacular architecture because it doesn’t allow anyone who already owns an adobe to work on it,” says Canovas.

Texas 52

Texas Housing Concrete Architecture 52