Building In Harmony With Nature

Scott Howard is a bioarchitect, builder, artist, and instructor with more than 20 years of experience. Coming from a ceramics background in his early years, he started working with sculptural adobe architecture in 1999. After gaining a degree in cultural anthropology, he established Earthen Hand Natural Building in 2002, promoting vernacular bioarchitecture, materials-based design, and appropriate technology through consulting, workshops, and research. Since then, he has taught workshops every year, visiting numerous locations world-wide.

Scott and I were synchronistically connected through a mutual friend, and I got to visit the Regenerative Home he built a decade ago here in southern Colorado. As someone with a long-time fantasy of building my own earthen home, I was excited to get to talk with an expert and pioneer in the field.

We talked about:

• Scott’s introduction to natural building via his studies in cultural anthropology;

• Natural building as a community experience of fun and even bliss – and how that energy gets channeled into construction;

• The healing effect of natural structures on the human biofield – and the damaging effect of right angles and many conventional building materials;

• Why architecture needs to evolve into bioarchitecture;

• Natural building as “immersive art” and the innate creativity of all humans;

• “Architecture for the poor” and natural building as a solution to both ecological and economic issues;

• And much more!

Find out about Scott’s work and upcoming workshops: EarthenHand.com

Check out Scott’s excellent interview series and inspiring natural building videos on the Earthen Hand YouTube channel

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