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David Sheen, Becky Bee and Radical Activist Architecture

Anarchist architect, filmmaker and eco-activist and David Sheen has the most most comprehensive Africa inspired earth building portal on the web. He waylaid me for 2 hours last night while I was surfing for some background info on Becky Bee. I came across the transcript of an interview Sheen conducted with her. In it she describes her first earth architecture epiphany:

And then I went to Africa, and I just happened to be at a bus stop where this guy was building a cob house. And he did it while I was waiting for the bus! And the women had already brought all the blobs of cob, and they were all lined up in a circle, circled up. And he threw it together in, like, a hour or two! And it was a thin dome, big enough for a person. All the cob was ready, and he just — slap, slap, slap, slap — wove this cob into a dome.

Sheen is redpharmacist on YouTube. He has uploaded dozens of interviews with other cob evangelists and alternative building designers.