The UNESCO Chair “Earthen architecture, building cultures and sustainable development” is working for the recognition of earthen material and the valorization of local resources for modern construction as well as for the conservation of tangible and intangible heritage.

Higher education
The Chair and its network intend to diffuse these knowledges to the institutions of higher education to re-think both globally and locally the use of the resources of our planet, associating earth, water and sun in a true technical, cultural, social, economic and environmental challenge
Scientific research
The Chair and its network intend developing the innovation in order to optimize the material, to simplify the implementation and to produce new architectures.


Vocational training
The Chair and its network intend revalorizing over 11 000 years of knowledge and know-how, and associating a secular material to an innovating architecture.
34 Partner institutions across 4 continents

Latest news
- Collaborative Construction with Pajarcilla in Mexicali, Mexico: An Academic Experience at the Faculty of Architecture and Design
- 1st Conference for the Exchange of Academic and Pedagogical Experiences on Earthen Architecture in Latin America
- 2nd International Conference on Building with Earth and Natural Materials
- [Training] BASEhabitat Postgraduate: LAST CALL – only a few places left!
- [Workshop] BASEhabitat Summer School on building with earth and plant fibres
