The Rammed Earth Renaissance Video

David Easton

Humans have been using earth as a primary building material for more than ten thousand years. Rammed earth, as practiced today, involves tamping a mixture of earth, water, and a little cement into wooden forms to create thick, sturdy masonry walls. Earthbuilt homes offer their inhabitants a powerful sense of security and well-being and have a permanence and solidity altogether lacking in so many of today's modular, pre-fab houses.

The Rammed Earth Renaissance is more than a video about a simple construction technique. It's a sharing of one man's vision and his twenty years of work to regain credibility for this venerable material--an informative journey through the past and the present, the process and the product.

About the Authors

David Easton is the founder, along with Cynthia Wright, Rammed Earth Works(REW Associates), a company that over the past twenty years has designed and built more than one hundred rammed earth structures for residential and commercial clients around the world. They live in Napa, California.