Vernacular Architecture - Earthen Buildings in Central and Easten Europe

Abstract

The revival of earthen architecture in the last thirty years has allowed, finally, a project flowering compelling challenges facing society in the XXI century. This earthen modern architecture is determined by the environmental quality of the material: energetic, economical (material widely available) and aesthetical. This new architecture meets also a return to logically reasoned and reasonable by upgrading local resources, not only material available in situ, but also of knowledge and human resources replies architectural and construction in the territories and people they inhabit.