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[Training] BASEhabitat Postgraduate: LAST CALL – only a few places left!

The world needs architects who design with care for people and the planet. Could that be you? The BASEhabitat Postgraduate Programme offers a unique 18-month learning journey that combines hands-on experience with theory. Participants engage with regenerative materials and sustainable construction techniques while exploring design approaches that respond to today’s most urgent challenges. Applications for […]

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[Workshop] BASEhabitat Summer School on building with earth and plant fibres

In July 2025, BASEhabitat hosted its seventh summer school on renewable building materials in Austria. An international group of trainers and participants explored building techniques with earth, straw and reeds, creating and shaping rammed earth walls, a garden pavilion and various clay brick and lightweight clay samples. Knowledge transfer, practical experience and creativity found their […]

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[Conference] HERITAGE2025, Earthen and Vernacular Heritage: Conservation, Adaptive Reuse and Urban Regeneration

The “HERITAGE 2025 International Conference on Earthen and Vernacular Heritage: Conservation, Adaptive Reuse and Urban Regeneration”, that took place on September 10th-13th at the Universitat Politècnica de València, has been organized within the framework of three research projects, among which “Earth4Future – Sustainable Reuse of Earthen Architecture and its Lessons for Contemporary Architecture” funded by […]

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DICAAR’s academic year in Action: cooperation and education

DICAAR has run several activities during the academic year 2024-25 including one international project, educational activities, publications and awards. Among these was The Legacy of Babylon project, carried out with the University of Nahrain in Baghdad, the University of Karbala and the World Monuments Fund, which focused on historical and archaeological preservation in Iraq through […]

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[Workshop] Participatory self-built housing workshops by the Autonomous University of Baja California

In the peri-urban neighborhoods of Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, marked by limited resources, precarious housing and restricted access to basic services, participatory self-built housing workshops have emerged as an innovative and comprehensive strategy to face habitat challenges. This approach combines technical training with community empowerment processes, enabling residents themselves to take an active role in […]

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VIIIe FULL IMMERSION NELLA TERRA

DICAAR – Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale e Architettura – Università degli Studi di Cagliari with the UNITWIN UNESCO Chair “Earthen Architecture, Building Cultures and Sustainable Development”, in collaboration with Luca Noli Association and Associazione Internazionale Città della Terra Cruda; supported by the Consiglio Internazionale dei Monumenti e dei Siti – Comitato Nazionale Italiano and […]

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BASEhabitat Postgraduate

You are looking to deepen your expertise in socially and environmentally responsible architecture.
Applications are now open!

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BASEhabitat Summer School 2025

July 06 – 20, 2025

Learn how to build with earth and plant fibres and discuss their use in contemporary architecture.

Apply now!

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[CALL FOR APPLICATION] Autum Workshop Earth Building Material: training Iranian young professionals

Autum Workshop:  Earth Building Material, in France – Grenoble, 14 – 25 October 2024 Application for a scholarship for young Iranian professionals available until 1st September 2024 Earthen architecture is an important part of Iran’s architectural heritage. There are many earthen sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List. There are also many contemporary earthen buildings. […]

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[SEMINAR / WORKSHOP] VII EDITION FULL IMMERSION NELLA TERRA NELLA TERRA

DICAAR – Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale e Architettura – Università degli Studi di Cagliari with the UNITWIN UNESCO Chair “Earthen Architecture, Building Cultures and Sustainable Development”, in collaboration with Luca Noli Association and Associazione Internazionale Città della Terra Cruda; supported by the Consiglio Internazionale dei Monumenti e dei Siti – Comitato Nazionale Italiano and […]

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[MEETING] International Meeting for Construction with Earth and Natural Materials (Tlaquepaque Jalisco, México)

[EN] Within the framework of the UNESCO Chair of Earthen Architecture, which we are a part of, the International Meeting for Construction with Earth and Natural Materials will be held at ITESO University on June 13 and 14 of this year. This meeting is aimed toward students, builders, architects, and the community in general who […]

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[EXHIBITION] In Praise of Soils (Shanghai, China)

“All things are born from earth, and ultimately belong to earth.” It is an everlasting principle, and the architecture also follows. Earth is called “⽣⼟” in Chinese, when it is used as a building material without being burned. In ancient China, the term “earth-wood work” was often used to refer to the concept of construction. […]

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[CALL] Terra Education IV : Changing Scale | Changer d’échelle | Cambiar de escalaAPPEL / Terra Education IV :

[EN] Since the middle of the last century, efforts have been made to better exploit the potential of earth as a building material. All over the world, interest in earthen architecture is growing, and research centres are multiplying, as are training efforts. However, the major projects carried out in the 1970s (e.g. “Village terre” in […]

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Postgraduate | basehabitat : Master of Advanced Studies – Architecture (deadline Dec 12, 2023)

The Postgraduate is aimed at professionals and graduates in architecture who wish to learn and enhance their skills and abilities by expanding their outreach to address social and environmental issues. Aware of the global challenges we face, ranging from environmental destruction and dwindling resources to poverty and growing inequality, the need to prepare future architects […]

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GDA Sidi Amor Summer School “Green Building & earthen construction” (Sidi Amor, Tunisia – 2nd-21st July 2023)

The Sidi Amor Summer School in its 2023 edition (Monday July 3 / Sunday July 21) takes up the theme of earth construction from 2 angles: Modern : the material in the form of a stabilized compressed earth block (BTCS). Traditional : Arches, vaults and domes. Program Module 1: Theoretical & practical bases (July 3 […]