In the mirror of the past : century old straw bale buildings in Nebraska
After reading and translating Roger Welsch 1970 study on the first straw bale buildings in Nebraska, I went on looking for the surviving structures and visited a 1925’s load bearing sb house and an 1928’s load bearing sb church. During that same trip I was fortunate enough to visit a hundred more sb buildings from the 1980s to today including several load bearing sb and sb retrofit.
Date
- 20 Sep 2025
- Expired!
Time
- 10:20 - 10:40
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- Martin Paquot
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Martin Paquot
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Website
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Architect (Arep) and former secretary of the French Straw Building Network, I am currently doing a PhD on the environmental and social history of straw building (EHESS in Paris). I am also the editor of the online magazine untitled Topophile, the friend of place - review of happy spaces and translator of Roger Welsch famous study on Nebraska's first straw bale buildings. In 2023, I was traveling the USA on the trail of straw buildings and builders thanks to the Delano Aldrich Emerson Fellowship.