We’ve been compiling lists and hard drives for years of valuable resources for all natural building – whether you are looking into strawbale, cob or natural plasters.
Here’s the start of a growing list of books and website, reports and physical material sites that we’ll add to our resources page and complete over the coming winter months as we get more resources online.
We’ll get started with natural building materials – what are they and how are they used around the world.
We hope it is useful to check out and add to your growing resource library!
Natural Building Material websites and blogs
What are natural materials?
10 Natural Building Materials
Natural Building Techniques Around the World
Nine sustainable building materials that save money too
Eco-Friendly Building Materials
Four new sustainable building materials to watch
Guide to Sustainable Building Materials Australia
Natural Building Materials Australia
Down to Earth Design – Building with Sigi Kok0
Cob Builders Handbook
Sustainable Building Materials
13 Important Guides for natural building
Books to guide you
The Art of Natural Building, Joseph F. Kennedy, Michael G. Smith, Catherine Wanek
A Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein with Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel
Shelter, LLoyd Kahn
The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical & Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage. By Ianto Evans, Michael G. Smith and Linda Smiley, Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Building with Earth Timeless Technique for Modern Architecture,
Green Building Handbook, Tom Woolley
Designing with Natural Materials, Graham A. Ormondroyd, Angela F. Morris
Handy Podcasts
We are nature, we are creativity, we are power, Unruly Podcast
