FUTURE:
The Earthship Biotecture movement creates sustainable homes from recycled objects and natural materials like wood, mud, and stone. Many have green roofs and indoor gardens.
PAST:
The Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest began building homes of wood, mud, and stone over a millennium ago.
One such ancient settlement, that is currently still inhabited by Pueblo people, is in Taos, New Mexico:
Also in New Mexico, ruins of 1000+ year old Pueblo dwellings in Chaco Canyon and Aztec Monument:
Chaco Canyon:
Aztec Monument:
Just one of the striking construction similarities seen in the walls of the ancients and the futurists:
Aztec Monument:
Earthship:
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