My introduction to building a stone wall, like beginnings in so many homesteading skills, came unexpectedly, urgently, and at the wrong time. It was a rare clear morning during a rainy spring in ...

More than half a billion tons of construction and demolition materials end up in U.S. landfills every year. Reusing that rubble, as our ancient ancestors did, could offset the waste.

03-22-2018 DESIGN Why We Should Be Building Like Ancient Greeks An MIT professor introduces cyclopean masonry, a new method of building that’s actually really old.

According to ASI officials, the double-storey mosque was built with thickly-plastered rubble stone, with the lower storey consisting only of a series of basement cells.