The substances a building is made from, from ancient earthen materials such as adobe and rammed earth through the engineered materials, structural steel, reinforced and prestressed concrete, corten steel and cross laminated timber, that made the twentieth century's structural forms possible. Belongs here: any named building material treated as an entity in its own right. Does not belong here: the structural forms a material is shaped into, such as the column or the vault, grouped under structural element, or the building-wide strategy a material enables, such as the tensile structure, grouped under structural principle.
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Mudbricks are known to have been used since 9000 BCE.
Wikipedia, Mudbrick, lead section, region
The 9000 BCE dwellings of Jericho were constructed from mudbricks, affixed with mud, as were those at numerous sites across the Levant over the following millennia.
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