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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A sculptural shell coated in mud plaster creates a winding, cave-like interior at this farmhouse in Tamil Nadu, India, completed by local architecture practice Earthscape Studio. Called The Wild House ...

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 ...

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, ...