Stand on an American building site and what you see does not look like a house. It looks like a very large piece of furniture: a lattice of identical thin…
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There is a building material available almost everywhere, requiring no processing, no fuel and no transport, and a very large proportion of the world's population has lived in houses…
There is a common assumption about layered rocks that slate steadily breaks.
The assumption is that a rock which splits into sheets does so along the layers in which it…
There is a category of traditional building technique that looks primitive and turns out to be doing something subtle, and thatch is the clearest example available.
The appearance suggests a…
There is a useful question to ask about any standardised object: what is actually setting the dimension?
For a great many things the answer is a material property or a…
There is a small group of building materials that go round in a circle, and lime is the clearest.
The cycle is truly closed. A rock is heated to drive…