Watch as two skilled builders transform a secluded forest clearing into an incredible multi-level swimming pool system using primitive tools and natural materials. Follow their journey from the ...

Mud is a perfect material for art and architecture; it’s durable, beautiful and easy to work with. Earth is used by many cultures for building — in fact, it’s the most common construction material on ...

Huffing and puffing can't blow down this house down. One man is building a house here in East Texas made entirely out of straw bale and mud plaster. He says he got the idea after traveling and ...

Walking into the meditation room at the Academy for the Love of Learning a few years ago was a memorable experience. There was no one around, and there was a freshly applied coat of plaster inside the ...

Assalamo Alaikum. In Pakistan each year during the month of Muharram Muslims do mud plaster on their family graves annually. Discussion is going on whether it is FARZ or SUNNAH (Moaqdah or non Moaqda) ...

Three National Park Service employees on furlough due to the federal government’s partial shutdown found something to do with their free time on Wednesday: slapping mud plaster on San Miguel Mission, ...

These clay plaster projects ideas–from mosaics to wall sculptures and cob ovens–will get you started with earthen plaster building. People are often fascinated by the structure of my earth-bag home, ...

CHENNAI, India -- In the small village of Attapadi in the southern Indian state of Kerala, 52-year-old farmer Jayan Cherian lives in an organic-mud house faced with lime plaster, designed by Biju ...