HERMANTOWN, MINN. – Dozens of quaint houses in this city north of Duluth were built as a government experiment in back-to-the-land living. It was called the Jackson Project. Its signature 1.5-story ...

The adobe-building process uses compressed earth to build low-energy, fireproof, biodegradable structures that last many years if constructed correctly. It is an ancient construction method, with its ...

In southern Bulgaria, in the village of Tyurkmen, many brick houses sit empty. Their tile roofs are falling in. Gergana Daskalova, an ecologist who spent summers here with her grandparents as a young ...

Q: I live in one of the small brick houses built in South Arlington during the 1930s. There are several places on our westward-facing exterior wall where the plaster on the inside wall bubbles up.