Reynolds, Emily

I studied and apprenticed Japan's natural earthen wall building craft in Kyoto for one year before returning to the United States to re-join the natural building movement in 2008. Despite having grown up in Japan, I never "saw" their clay walls until I returned in 2003 after having started on a path of natural building in the US. Old, slightly crumbling walls of country side homes which revealed sturdy earthen structures clued me into the the existence of a highly evolved earthen building craft. I knew I couldn't return to the US until I learned it. A year of searching went by before I found a...