Books and Papers

Books by Bruce King


Buildings of Earth and Straw
Structural Design for Rammed Earth
and Straw Bale Architecture
(Green Building Press, 1996)

Making Better Concrete
Guidelines for Using Fly Ash for
Higher Quality, Eco-Friendly
Structures
(Green Building Press, 2006)
Design of Straw Bale Buildings
The State of the Art
(Green Building Press, 2007)

Contributing Author

The Rammed Earth House (1st Edition)
(Chelsea Green Publishing, 1996)

Alternative Construction
(Wiley, 2000)

A Place in the Sun
(Chelsea Green Publishing, 2001)

Tradition and Innovation / Green Architecture and Urbanism
(Prince’s Foundation, 2008)

Codes and Standards

Revised California Straw Bale Construction Guidelines
(with Martin Hammer et al, 2002)

ASTM 2392 Standard Guide for Design of Earth Wall Building Systems
(ASTM, 2010)

Papers

Engineering Natural Building Materials: a rational approach to an exuberant architecture for the 21st century
(2012) 

The Renaissance of Earthen Architecture
(2005, also translated into Turkish)

10,000 Years of Building / History is in our Future
(2009)