2. Contemporary architecture

2.1 In industrialized countries

Although earthen construction declined in industrialized countries after the Second World War, it was given a new lease of life in the 1980s thanks to the material's excellent environmental properties.

The industrialization of the building industry has led to a certain obsolescence of traditional building cultures based on the use of local materials and community mutual aid.

Today, in these same industrialized countries, the need to improve the energy performance of buildings, as well as the attention paid to heritage (its conservation, restoration and rehabilitation), are leading to the emergence of a qualitative questioning that reacts to the trivialization of international-style architectural landscapes...