When it comes to developing sustainable practices, sometimes the best lessons to be learned, are those that have already taught.

Sustainable design in its simplest form: Lessons from the living villages of Fujian rammed earth houses is a very interesting study on Xiamen’s Hakka houses.

Explained in amazing detail through the 1996 Architectural Review article Earthly fortresses – communal housing in China, I once spent a full week in 2001 trying to find these amazing creations, and to this day I am still in awe.