Building a wooden underground house in the jungle required patience and careful planning. Digging below ground by hand made every mistake harder to correct, especially when working with natural wood.

Four years ago, the Pritzker Prize–winner Tadao Ando spectacularly converted a 1920s apartment building in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago into exhibition spaces for a gallery named—in ...

The assumption that wood houses are not made to last is simply that: an assumption—and an incorrect one at that. The oldest wood building in the world is Japan’s Hōryū-ji pagoda, which has a cypress ...

UK tech company AUAR makes portable micro-factories that it says can produce the wooden frame of a house in a day.

In Puerto Rico, a U.S. Caribbean island exposed to both hurricanes and earthquakes, it is estimated that over half of all commercial and residential construction is constructed informally. While this ...

We thought you might like to see some photos we took at the Wallabout tour a couple weeks ago, a joint effort of The Wooden House Project and the Brooklyn Historical Society. The area has one of the ...

A crane raising a Fading West housing module for placement in a development in Colorado.Credit... Supported by By Binyamin Appelbaum Photographs by Zeke Bogusky Mr. Appelbaum is a member of the ...