Architecture has undergone an intense critical revision over the last two decades – a period during which paradigms such as the respect for the environment, energy efficiency, and attention to sustainability have gained strength. All of this has made a decisive contribution to the recovery of materials, methods, and technical procedures related to tradition. In this context, the study and application of processes that use raw earth – rammed, molded or kneaded – have gained ground, not only in purely theoretical or experimental terms but in a practical sense as well. The recovery of techniques inherited from traditional architecture (mortars and mud renderings, straw and clay, adobe, rammed earth walls, fill-in, bahareque, quincha, etc.) is furthermore enriched by contemporary processes of prefabrication and industrialization, such as the continuous formwork systems, compressed earth blocks or superadobe, which assert earth’s value as a construction material today...[+]