This article first appeared in The Owner Builder 192 December 2015/ January 2016. www.theownerbuilder.com.au By Maggi McKerron Ten years ago I fell in love with a mountain. Mt Chiang Dao…
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This article first appeared in The Owner Builder 196 August/September 2016. www.theownerbuilder.com.au By Brian Hodge As we embark on our 20th owner-built home, I reflect back over the progress since purchasing property…
April Magill shares her journey into natural building and what she is currently working on.
Chris Magwood brings us an enlightened view on a simple, abundant material with all of the right qualities
By Elaine Brett Twelve years ago I had never even heard of building with straw. I lived in a four-bedroom colonial house in a subdivision in Maryland. The conventional American…
As an update to this post about the Feuillette House in France, here is a patent in the United States for straw bale construction. It was filed on June 6, 1921…
By Kyle Holzhueter Editors Note – This article is a feature length pictorial look at the various aspects of natural building in Korea. The full-length article will be in the…
by Chris Magwood The straw bale revival of the 1990s reintroduced builders to a pioneer building method that showed remarkable potential for building in a modern context. The nature of…
This article originally appeared in TLS #55 and was the feature article in that issue. by Wayne Bingham and Colleen Smith – Idaho, USA Our interest in straw-bale construction grew…
This article appeared in TLS #57. Loose Strings: Technical Discussions by Jeff Ruppert – Colorado, USA T e c h T i p s A little known fact in the…
This article originally appeared in Issue #54. This issue includes a table of straw-bale building codes, guidelines and mandates in the U.S., and links to straw-bale codes, guidelines and supporting…
This is original content and has not appeared in the printed version of The Last Straw. In mid August of 2008 we saw ourselves back on the plane to Siberia. …
This article appeared in TLS #59. Turko Semmes is a licensed general contractor from San Luis Obispo County, California, and one of the foremost experts in straw-bale building techniques. A…
This article appeared in TLS #59. by Ken Haggard and Polly Cooper – California, USA Adopted from an article that appeared in Home Power Magazine. Like many other architectural firms…
This article appeared in TLS #53. The topic of this issue is Moisture. It contains an extensive article about Moisture Basics and Straw-Bale Moisture Basics (by John Straube, edited by…
Build our house out of straw? by Stephen MacDonald – New Mexico, USA This article appeared in The Baley Pulpit,TLS#7/Summer 1994. “May we look upon our Treasures, and the…
This article originally appeared in TLS #49. Articles on straw-bale wall panel systems are included in issues #30, #42, #47, #48, #55. by Matt Robinson – Arizona, USA Northen Arizona…
This article appeared in TLS #50. by Chris Newton – Queensland, Australia Can you design and build straw-bale homes for a hot and humid climate? Living in Queensland, Australia, I…
