British environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy’s Clay Wall at the at the Ingleby Gallery 1998, Curve Gallery 1996-2000 and at Galerie Lelong 2000
Hassan Fathy
The Hassan Fathy web site is the first, and perhaps the most comprehensive, website on the great Egyptian architect. The site documents 105 projects with photos, essays and drawings and is available in English, French and Arabic.
AREA: Design + Build in Marfa, Texas
PROGRAM DATES FOR AREA SUMMER DESIGN+BUILD
June 1 – July 1 2005
AREA is a summer research+build workshop that engages a 90 year old abandoned mud-brick building, located in the town of Marfa, Texas, as the testing grounds for questioning the notion of detail, the theme of this years inquiry. Through a series of explorations that examine the process of making and unmaking in architecture, participants will design and build full-scale interventions that respond to a critical examination of place and program while addressing local/global and industrial/non-industrial agendas for architecture by employing raw earth as the primary building material in these investigations. Marfa serves as an ideal laboratory from where to study these issues. It is a town constructed almost entirely from mud-brick and transformed by rich historical, cultural and geographic forces. At 5,000 feet above sea level, it is one of the oldest cultivated areas in the United States. Located 60 miles from the U.S./Mexico border, Marfa is also home to the Chinati Foundation, an internationally renowned contemporary art museum, founded by Donald Judd, whose emphasis is on works in which art and the surrounding landscape are inextricably linked. Participants will have the opportunity to visit this extraordinary cultural and geographic landscape through a series of directed and self-guided field-studies. AREA is an initiative of the School of Architecture at Clemson University and made possible in part by the Adobe Alliance, a non-profit organization committed to the dissemination of traditional earth building technologies.
MORE INFORMATION AT: www.areainstitute.org
In Situ
In Situ is a U.K. based rammed earth company devoted to rammed earth construction, consultancy and research.
Design+Research+Build at the University of Arizona
The Design+Research+Build program at the University of Arizona has constructed several projects in rammed earth. Visit the programs website.
Vigilius Mountain Hotel
The Vigilius Mountain Hotel, designed by Matteo Thun, have guest rooms that have prefabricated rammed earth partition screens in each room that contain heating elements that retain and radiate heat in to the room. [Read] [Pics]
The Construction of a Hybrid Home
Building With Awareness: The Construction of a Hybrid Home is “the most comprehensive video ever made on the design and construction of a green home” in New Mexico. The DVD contains contains a 2 hr. 45 min. video which contains information on adobe construction and earthen plasters. Watch quicktime trailers of the DVD.
Adobe Towns
“Adobe Towns” series of 3 films first screened at the LEHM 2004 in Leipzig last year can soon be seen on TV on the French/German/Swiss channel “arte” and the German channel “Sudwest fernsehen”. More information about the films can be read here: http://www.filmquadrat.de/gb/adobetowns.htm
Title:
1. Adobe Towns: Djenné – City on the edge of the desert
2. Adobe Towns: Shibam – Chicago of the desert
3. Adobe Towns: Yazd – Desert Oasis in Iran
Djenné
14.03.2005, 19.00 on ARTE
22.05.2005, 17.15 on SUDWEST Fernsehen
Yazd
15.03.2005, 19.00 on ARTE
29.05.2005, 17.15 on SUDWEST Fernsehen
Shibam
16.03.2005, 19.00 on ARTE
12.06.2005, 17.15 on SUDWEST Fernsehen
Authors/Directors:
Djenné, Yazd: Thomas Wartmann
Shibam: Stefan Tolz
Production: Filmquadrat 2004