Post #933435
2025-04-05 03:25 UTC
Interviewer: "If mud houses stay cool, and cement houses are hot and require air-conditioning, why do people build with cement instead of mud?"
Master mason: "If one has a lot of money and he wants many apartments, you cannot have 11 apartments in a mud house. In cement, you build a house of 7 floors or 5 floors, and each floor can have 4 apartments, and you can make money from it."
The #Architecture of Mud (1999) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0321279
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@agnes@pdx.social 2026-03-31 02:20
I wish I could visit #Yemen one day, and marvel at the Old Walled City of Shibam, with its beautiful tall buildings entirely made of air-dried mud bricks. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/shibam-mud-skyscraper-yemen