The Biophilic Tiny House: Part 1
This is the first article of a series where we follow Jeffrey Hart as he designs and builds his tiny house. Here Jeffrey introduces the project, explains his intentions and design process, and describes the exterior wall envelope of the house. Throughout this piece there are references to his Building…
Jeffrey Hart and The Last StrawJune 28, 2025
Remembering Matts Myhrman
A brief remembrance of natural building legend and co-founder of The Last Straw
The Last StrawNovember 10, 2024
Asked and Answered: What is Your Favorite Building?
One is the house I grew up in in Illinois, an early 1900s farmhouse renovated by the architect Harold Zook sometime in the 1930s. It looked like a hobbit house, with all rounded roof edges and cedar shakes, round windows, and a stucco exterior (very rare in that area). It…
The Last StrawJune 14, 2023
Backyard Build: Experimental Plastering in Austin, Texas
Last Fall a few of the editors of The Last Straw went down to Austin to help plaster the interior and exterior of some friends’ casita. The small structure is a test to see how light-straw clay and adobe walls covered in lime plaster on the outside with a lime…
Cole Staats, Alivia Michalski and The Last StrawJune 14, 2023
Nightstand Essentials
ALL WE CAN SAVE EDITED BY AYANA ELIZABETH JOHNSON & KATHARINE K. WILKINSON All We Can Save is a dynamic anthology of essays, poems, and stories from women addressing our climate crisis. The voices in it are so disparate and elegantly organized that it is able to offer some solace…
The Last StrawFebruary 16, 2022
All Hands In
Adapted from a video and performance piece from the next generation of natural builders at the 2021 Natural Building Alliance Conference in Moab, Utah on the conference theme of “All Hands In.” I’ve been spending time the past couple weeks capturing video of builders around Moab holding the tools and…
Kate WeigelFebruary 16, 2022
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