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For thousands of years, civilizations around the world have built houses out of earth – whether it be mud brick, wattle and dab or rammed earth.
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But adobe (the practice of making mudbricks) has now become today's "it" building material, from museums around the world designed using adobe, to do-it-yourselfers constructing homes from the very dirt beneath their feet.
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Correspondent Conor Knighton looks at the history of adobe, and how ancient adobe materials are being merged with 3-D printing techniques.
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