The magazine
Materials
Local materials, African innovation and sustainable construction.
Raw earth is the material of the century — and Africa has known it for a thousand years
While Europe rediscovers rammed earth, Sahelian builders never stopped building with it. A look at a craft that modernity had pushed aside.
Local timber: the supply chain we need to rebuild
Vène, gmelina, néré, cailcedrat: a practical inventory of West African species and their uses.
