At Margent Farm, a 21ha hemp farming facility in Cambridgeshire, Practice Architecture and Material Cultures have recently designed a 100 sq m house from the industrial hemp growing in the fields ...

Used since the 19th century—typically as a rural, rustic building material—straw has been a DIY solution for affordable, earth-friendly construction. But a new wave of contemporary straw ...

Architect and designer Omer Arbel’s 75.9 House nestled in a hayfield on farmland ... emerged naturally from the formwork process and the material’s fluid dynamic properties.

Today, Bard Graduate Center is the leading graduate institute in the United States for interdisciplinary, object-centered inquiry into material culture. Join us for an open house Sessions will ...