Roberta Strickler Jan 19, 2007 Jan 19, 2007 Updated Sep 11, 2013 Straw bale houses of the western Nebraska prairies were comfortable places built where there were no trees or sod. In Lancaster County, ...

Every child knows that the little pig who built his house from straw soon had to move in with his brother, but if he did the same thing today his choice of building material would be seen as much ...

Thank you so much for the wonderful story about Lou Harrison’s Joshua Tree straw-bale house (“An Original Composition,” Feb. 12) and your important column on straw-bale construction (“It’s What’s ...

The first straw housing estate is being planned after tests showed that walls built of straw bales can be made strong enough to withstand hurricane-force winds. A two-storey straw house constructed at ...

You might not think that a straw house could be better insulated than one made of, say, brick, but that’s exactly what researchers at the University of Bath in the U.K. intend to prove with the ...

Yvon Chouinard and the architect who designed his Ventura, California, home explain why the waste material is the next step in the fight against climate change. Photo by Tim Davis and landscaping by ...

It huffed and puffed, but the 82-ton-force, earthquake-simulation shake table could not knock down the straw house designed and built by University of Nevada, Reno alumna and civil engineer Darcey ...

The straw bale home of Elise Lang and her husband, Michael Pierce, was finished in 2001. SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH Winding under the canopy of trees shading the long driveway, goats and sheep peered at ...

Perhaps the scent of longleaf yellow pine accounts for my memories of playing in Hettie's front yard some 40 years ago. Smells will do that. Hettie was over a dozen times my age but the finest ...

Fletcher and Boeck say straw provides oustanding insulation from noise and outdoor weather. Architects measure insulation by a scale called R-value, and Boeck said the straw-bale house will measure ...