The Future of Architecture

While the corporations and the starchitects (walking hand in hand) try to sell us "freedom" through techno-utopia, using images of anti-nature-architecture as the future of sustainability, like Masdar City, we still have teachers showing us the Timeless Way back to Earth. One of them is David Sheen, the creator of the documentary film First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture. In the following movie you can see him at his TEDx-Talk in Johannesburg, South Africa, discussing the true future of sustainable architecture. This future is of course timeless, and what can be more timeless than earth, a fundamental part of human biophilia since the down of man.

Further reading:

• Wool & Seaweed Makes Sustainable Brick Stronger. Surely this brick can give excellent moisture regulating properties too. 
• Meco’Press Machine Makes LEGO Building Bricks From Mud. Perrocheau and his small team have designed a hydraulic press that transforms ordinary mud into structural building blocks. Since 2008 the team has distributed the Meco’press in France and Belgium, and they have recently seen an overwhelming interest from organizations looking to build in developing nations. The ingenious press offers a green building material solution that can function within the constraints of devastated areas. 
• Green Home Building
• Earth in Chile

This article is published at The Permaculture Research Institute of Australia on April 21, 2011.