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Aureka - Earth Construction Equipment
Aureka is the metal workshop located in Auroville that is manufacturing the Auram equipment.
UNESCO Chair "Earthen Architecture"
The UNESCO Chair "Earthen Architecture, Constructive Cultures and Sustainable Development" aims to accelerate, on a global level, the dissemination of scientific and technical know-how on earthen architecture in the areas of Environment & World Heritage and Environment & Human Settlements/Housing. Its member institutions are all across the globe.
CRATerre
CRATerre-EAG, the International Centre for Earth Construction, is a scientific organization within the National School of Architecture of Grenoble, (ENSAG), France. CRATerre-ENSAG is the world leader in earth architecture and construction.
ICOMOS-ISCEAH
the International Scientific Committee of Earthen Architectural Heritage has for its mission to contribute to the development of better practice and methods for the protection and conservation of the world’s earthen architectural, archaeological and cultural landscape heritage.

OUR NETWORK

The Adobe Alliance
The purpose of the Adobe Alliance is to build low-cost energy efficient housing that is climatically and environmentally compatible and to fill widespread needs for sustainable, salubrious housing while enhancing the unique landscape of the Big Bend region of West Texas and other desert environments.
Adobe Is Not Software
Adobe Is Not Software is a Los Angeles-based organization dedicated to educating, enabling and advancing adobe construction in California.
Anne Lemarquis
Anne Lemarquis is an architect and artist specializing in the earthen medium. She works in Chile and this website is only in Spanish.
amàco
Amàco is a center of research and experimentation that sensitively and poetically promotes the most common of raw materials, such as sand, earth, water, wood, straw, etc. It has developed its own unique pedagogy that unites science with experience, through the collaborative efforts of researchers, academics, and construction professionals. This website is only in French.
Archi'Terre Festival, Algeria
The International Cultural Festival for the Promotion of Earthen Architecture is organized on an annual basis by the Algerian Ministry of Culture to build national awareness of the importance of building with earth. This website is only in French.
AsTerre
The Association Nationale des Professionnels de la Terre Crue (AsTerre) is a French association aiming to bring together and promote companies specializing in raw earth techniques, to transmit knowhow and develop raw earth training programs, and to implement professional guidelines for raw earth. This website is only in French.
Auroville
Auroville is an international township in Southern India founded on the philosophies of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in the pursuit of human unity. The Earth Institute is one of several organizations researching and promoting sustainable technologies and practices in the community.
Auroville Design Consultants
Formed in 1988 on the CSR campus in Auroville, Auroville Design Consultants is headed by architect Suhasini Ayer. Suhasini and Satprem collaborated on the construction of the Auroville Visitor Center, a demonstration of appropriate building technologies including CSEB and renewable energies. Suhasini continues to use earth in her many projects.
Auroville Green Practices
Auroville Green Practices aims to bring together various stakeholders to envision future townships that offer a habitat that is ecologically, socially and economically nurturing. Distinguished professionals in the field share their vision and experiences in the form of plenary talks, participatory sessions and a panel discussion addressing the key question concerning sustainably integrated human habitats.
BASIN SOUTH ASIA
Basin South Asia Regional Knowledge Platform (Basin - SA) is committed to developing knowledge systems and promoting collaborative action within South Asia to enable access by the poor to sustainable habitat and livelihoods.
Biome Environmental Solutions
Biome Environmental Solutions is a Bangalore-based design firm focused on ecology, architecture and water. The office’s diverse team includes designers, architects, civil and mechanical engineers and urban planners from various parts of India and abroad.
Building and Social Housing Foundation
The Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF) is an independent research and education institute. It was established in 1976 as a registered charity (Number 270987) with the objective of carrying out research into residential housing.
Cal-Earth
Cal-Earth is a non-profit foundation dedicated to research and education of the public in environmentally oriented arts and architecture. Its philosophy is based on the equilibrium of the natural elements of earth, water, air, and fire, and their Unity at the service of the arts and humanity.
Cartoterra
Cartoterra is a website for mapping examples of earthen architecture in the world, as well as the actors and activities that are promoting it. It is an initiative of the UNESCO Chair Earthen Architecture.
Centro da Terra
The Portuguese centre for earth construction, which aims to preserve the earthen heritage and promote a new form of earthen architecture.
Colorado Earth
Colorado Earth combines the expertise of Jim Hallock and Lisa Schroder to bring compressed earth blocks and adobe to the Colorado market. They also offer workshops, architectural and engineering services, and consultancy.
Dachverband Lehmbau
Dachverband Lehm is the German network of earth builders (English language version available here).
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Grenoble
The National School of Architecture of Grenoble is at the forefront of earthen architecture academia today. The CRAterre laboratories are located there and it offers post-graduate degree programs in earthen architecture.
Dwell Earth
Dwell Earth is a USA based company providing education, training, and the best Earth Block production equipment and earthen construction technologies available in the world. Dwell Earth also specializes in appropriate design and project management by utilizing local resources to help transform lives and communities throughout the world.
Earth Architecture
The Earth Architecture website focuses on architecture constructed of raw earth and serves as a database for the discussion and dissemination of events, resources, and images of earth architecture in the context of contemporary architecture culture.
Earth Block International
Earth Block International is a consulting and construction company based in the south-western United States dedicated to the promotion of Compressed Earth Block construction as a solution to global housing needs and environmental concerns.
Earth Building UK & Ireland
EBUKI is a registered charity working to foster earth building in all its diversity through more research, more teaching and training, more standards, more assessment, more information, more networking, more built examples, and more experienced professionals.
Earth Structures Europe
Earth Structures Europe is committed to promoting the use of stabilised rammed earth in construction in Europe.
Earth USA
Earth USA is the biennial International Conference on Architecture and Construction with Earthen Materials initiated by Adobe in Action.
Earthitects
Earthitects is a Bangalore-based firm that specializes in natural living spaces for residences and resorts. Founder George Ramapuram Sr. has taken inspiration from his experiences working in Auroville to bring natural materials, including earth, to his creations.
ECOMOBILIA
ECOMOBILIA is a Honduran company dedicated to the design and construction of ecological houses using the oldest and more economic forms of construction: earth blocks; made by combining soil, high-pressure hydraulic and a soil stabilizer.
Europäische Bidungsstätte für Lehmbau
The European Education Center for Building with Clay is an initiative to bring together experts in earthen construction from Germany, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Great Britain and Poland. This website is only in German.
Hassan Fathy
Hassan Fathy was a great Egyptian architect, who promoted again earth architecture and vernacular designs in the twentieth century.
INHAF
Habitat Forum (INHAF), a non-profit society, was set up in 1999. It serves as a national level ‘synergy’ platform for NGOs, individuals, groups and agencies to exchange information, share learning, debate, plan joint action, advocate causes, represent concerns, undertake capacity building, and network on issues shaping urban and rural development.
INTACH
The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) was founded in 1984 in New Delhi with the vision to spearhead heritage awareness and conservation in India. Today INTACH is recognized as one of the world’s largest heritage organizations, with over 190 Chapters across the Country. In the past 31 years INTACH has pioneered the conservation and preservation of not just our natural and built heritage but intangible heritage as well.
Johan Després
Johan Després is a young independent artisan specializing in building and restoring raw earth buildings. This website is only in French.
Lehm Fachverband Schweiz
Swiss network of earth construction and builders
Living Systems Sustainable Architecture (LSSA)
LSSA is an architecture and construction service, setting the design and build standards that make poured earth technology available for developed and developing countries.
Masonry at MIT
The Masonry Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology brings together faculty, students, and alumni in innovative research into masonry structures.
Made In Earth
Founded by former Earth Institute members Shruthi Ramakrishna and Jérémie Gaudin, Made In Earth is an architecture studio and construction practice promoting an architecture with a lesser impact on our environment. They work with local, natural building materials and techniques, particularly earth, with a taste for experimentation.
Masons Ink
Masons Ink is a design studio in Bangalore that specializes in earthen architecture, founded by former Earth Institute architects Rosie Paul and Sridevi Changali. In addition to architectural and interior design, they are involved with architecture students and the community expanding awareness in heritage conservation and sustainable materials.
Mediterrenet
Mediterre is the Réseau des Professionels de la Terre Crue en Méditerrannée, which brings together construction professionals specializing in earthen construction from all around the Mediterranean region.
Nandadeep Building Center
Nandadeep Designers and Valuers was established by Er. N. R. Varma in 1984, as a proprietary firm for providing technical services in the field of Architectural and structural consultancy. The firm has designed hundreds of the residential, commercial and industrial buildings, including the Global Pagoda with its 85.15 m dome.
National Centre for Safety of Heritage Structures
The National Centre for Safety of Heritage Structures (NCSHS) was established at IIT Madras under the aegis of the Ministry of Human Resources Development (Government of India) in July, 2013. NCSHS is envisioned as a long-term program towards addressing the national grand challenge of ensuring structural safety of historical monuments and other heritage structures in India with resource persons from India and abroad.
New Mexico Earth Works
New Mexico Earth Works is a firm specializing in adobe, rammed earth, and compressed earth construction throughout the American South West.
Rammed Earth Works
David Easton is the founder of Rammed Earth Works, a firm dedicated to the promotion of rammed earth in the USA.
Proterra
Proterra is a network uniting Portugal, Spain, and Latin America that encourages the use of earth as a building material through publications, training courses, demonstration building projects, and other events. Their website is in Spanish and Portuguese.
Rural Housing Knowledge Network
The Rural Housing Knowledge Network is an initiative of the Government of India to provide an information portal about building design and technologies that are cost efficient and suitable to the rural setting.
SECMOL
The Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL) was founded in 1988 by a group of young Ladakhis to reform the educational system in Ladakh. Over the years, students and teachers at the SECMOL School Campus have been working on a variety of innovative projects such as solar-heated mud buildings that need no heating even in -25°C.
SIREwall Inc.
Earth walls for the 21st century! SIREwall provides support, systems and training for those who wish to build with stabilized, insulated rammed earth. SIREwall Inc. is based in Salt Spring Island, Canada.
Solène Delahousse
Solène Delahousse is a lime expert specializing in thin plasters, stucco, tadelakt, fresco, sgraffito, etc. She is both a practitioner and a trainer in these techniques. This website is only in French.
Strawbuild
Strawbuild is a not for profit organisation that provides natural building and training services throughout Europe, with the aim to create quality spaces that won’t cost the earth.
Sustainable Livelihood Institute
The Sustainable Livelihood Institute is aninitiative by the Government of Tamil Nadu. The Institute conceptualizes, designs, organizes and delivers programs for skill, knowledge and perspective building on sustainable livelihoods to the officials of the Rural Development Department as well as leaders of the rural communities.
Sylvie Wheeler
Sylvie Wheeler is an earth specialist who creates interior finishes—walls, floors, etc.—with earthen plasters, adobe bricks, and tadelakt. This website is only in French.
TERRA 2016
The international congress Terra 2016 was the twelfth in a series of international events organized since 1972, bringing together academics, professionals and experts, and a broad audience gathering around earthen architecture. This edition was unique because the questions of cultural heritage and conservation and sustainable development were considered with equal importance. The city of Lyon also hosted events outside the conference viewable here.
TERRA Award
The purpose of the international TERRA Award for outstanding examples of contemporary earthen architecture is not only to identify and distinguish outstanding projects, but also to highlight the audacity of the project owners for choosing to use earth, the creativity of the designers and the skills of the craftsmen and entrepreneurs.
Terra Korea
Terra Korea is a research laboratory and institute of earthen architecture based out of the Mokpo National University. It has also developed the School of UNESCO Chair Earthen Architecture in Korea, which offers training for self-builders in the techniques of earthen architecture.
The Earthbuilders' Guild
The Earthbuilders’ Guild (TEG) is an organization dedicated to the betterment & advancement of earthen construction of homes and commercial buildings by preserving and promoting the age old building methods of adobe, rammed earth and compressed earth block construction.
TierraTEC – Arquitectura de Tierra
TierraTEC is a company which produces and commercializes compressed stabilised earth blocks. The company also sells ready-made stabilised earth mortar and paints. TierraTEC sets up production units on site so as to reduce costs and to propose more ecological projects, sensitive to the environment and climate change.
uni-terra
Uni-terra is a networking platform for the global exchange of information, experience and know-how in earth architecture and building with earth at an academic level. Its aim is to facilitate knowledge transfer and to support the development of expertise in the field and its long-term availability for future generations.
La Voute Nubienne
The NGO “La Voute Nubienne” has developed a simplified and standardised version of the ancient Nubian vault technique for building earthen houses and various buildings in rural areas of Burkina Faso and neighbouring countries. Their training and construction programme “Earth roofs in the Sahel” shows an exponential growth since 2000.

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