Over the past years, I have been part of small teams that have produced many residential & commercial structures made of rammed earth, adobe, and Steelcrete GFRC, including several low to net-zero carbon footprint cementitious composite prototype demonstration homes.

All types of building construction methods & materials are evolving quickly. I consider the paradigm shift of them all to be the revolution happening now that removes former constraints for architects, engineers, & builders, to realize the structural & aesthetic advantages of curves.

Flat plane linear designs of old from rectangles to geodesics all were restrained by the fact that material technology had not evolved to the point that allowed these flat plate linear designs to be expressed as actual curves. Only relatively recent advances & access to composite materials, molding & fabrication methods have enabled architects & engineers to now be able to take advantage of material economics, and the optimal distribution of live & dead loads with curves