Video Collection

This video shows "green" home construction in Crestone, Colorado, with a focus on a straw bale house. The house uses both passive and active solar and is built with natural materials to the extent possible.

This 7 minute clip is a promotional video for Loreto Bay (www.loretobay.com). We get an inside view on how Loreto Bay is using Adobe blocks to implement its goal of sustainable development in Loreto, Mexico

This is an eco-sustainable project we are developing in Nepal, the first time these buildings have been introduced there.

The Hadhramaut region in the south east of Yemen is well known for its mud brick architecture. Throughout the centuries, the population has developed very sophisticated building techniques and created a unique architectural environment. Spectacular structures such as ten-story mud brick tower houses rise up from the valley's floor. In interviews throughout the documentary, the masons describe their working techniques and the challenges they face with the introduction of new, imported building materials. The Architecture of Mud documents the vernacular architecture, the building craft and the society they belong to. This documentary is an archival record for the Yemenis - and for the world - of a stunning architectural environment that is rapidly disappearing. Because it describes construction practices that are almost obsolete, it will be a valuable tool also to other cultures where earthen architecture is traditional. It could assist in the preservation of adobe sites in the American Southwest, Latin America, Africa, Europe and Middle Eastern archaeological excavations. This program was first shown in the villages where it was made. The response was very positive and copies were donated to the collection of the National Museum and the local Museum of Hadhramaut.