Palestinian Architects Revive Earth Architecture in the Jordan Valley

Earth Architecture, the mysterious art of creating buildings out of compressed mud in a sustainable fashion, is making a surprise comeback in one of the places of its origin. In the Jordan Valley, near the ancient city of Jericho where 10,000 year old structures built only of earth still stand, a group of Palestinian architects from Ramallah are busy building new homes using mud brick and other compressed earth materials. For the architects, their obsession with sustainable materials is as much political as it is ecological and they are beginning to turn some heads as Monocle's Joseph Dana found out in the West Bank. Original Air Date: 5 March 2013 on Monocle 24

Earth Architecture, the mysterious art of creating buildings out of compressed mud in a sustainable fashion, is making a surprise comeback in one of the places of its origin. In the Jordan Valley, near the ancient city of Jericho where 10,000 year old structures built only of earth still stand, a group of Palestinian architects from Ramallah are busy building new homes using mud brick and other compressed earth materials. For the architects, their obsession with sustainable materials is as much political as it is ecological and they are beginning to turn some heads as Monocle's Joseph Dana found out in the West Bank. Original Air Date: 5 March 2013 on Monocle 24