This video features Misfat Al Abriyeen, Ad Dakhiliyah Governorate, Oman, a centuries-old mountain village built along the rocky slopes of the Al Hajar Mountains. Traditional mud-brick houses are ...

This video shows Shibam Kawkaban, Al Mahwit Governorate, Yemen, an ancient mountain town built with traditional mud-brick and stone houses at the base of towering sandstone cliffs. The closely packed ...

Traditional mud-brick houses that the people of northern Syria have built for thousands of years risk disappearing, as 12 years of war have emptied villages and left the buildings crumbling. Also ...

When artist couple Chris and Frances Fussell found themselves cramped in a one-bedroom Elizabeth Bay flat in the late 1960s, they dreamed of wide-open spaces.

(KTXL) — Recent catastrophic wildfires have shown that not much that is man-made can survive a firestorm. So, does rebuilding homes and structures in wildfire areas using tried-and-true wood frame ...

The low energy efficiency of buildings is a key factor in energy poverty, and households most exposed to severe forms of energy poverty live in dwellings built from materials such as wood and ...

MASSAKO, Mali (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Building a house in the poorest villages of southern Mali has for years involved cutting trees for timber frames and struggling to save cash for a ...

Readers may remember when a historic, three-story, brick house was taken down on Mud House Road in 2015 (E-G 22 Sept. 2015 E-G, and Towne Crier 16 October 2015). It was (and still is) often referred ...

We've spent a fair amount of real estate in our past newsletters discussing coded words and phrases — shortcuts that writers use to evoke images or themes, often unfairly. An NPR audience member ...