Bamboo houses are the traditional housing of the Dai ethnic group in Xishuangbanna. This kind of building is primarily built of bamboo—the posts, girders, purlins, rafters, doors and walls are all ...

A complete bamboo house is built alone in the deep jungle using natural materials and traditional hand-building methods. The ...

Natural disasters are uncool yet increasingly common (thanks, climate change). So a Vietnamese architecture firm created a prototype of the mythical Three Little Pigs house, one that Ma Nature can’t ...

With a growth cycle of four years, bamboo is a quick growing material that can be raised almost anywhere, making it one of the more natural and eco-friendly building materials — assuming it is ...

This experimental bamboo home is helping to set the pace for sustainable growth in China. Milan-based Studio Cardenas designed Energy Efficient Bamboo House, a home with a minimal carbon footprint and ...

Architects around the world are capitalising on the versatility of bamboo, so we've selected eight of the best homes that incorporate the material, including a prefabricated social housing project in ...

VTN Architects' recently completed Casamia Community House is the latest example of the firm's skill in using bamboo as a construction material. The building has been designed to be durable and ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Hidden down an alleyway in Ho Chi Minh City is a slender, five-storey house. Outside, on the traffic-choked main road ...

These simple one-room homes could be a new blueprint for scalable disaster housing.

Every year, floods, storms, and landslides plague Vietnam’s cities and countryside. These natural disasters, though not always devastating enough to attract international media, take a toll on the ...