The Yurt Foundation

Bill Coperthwaite has dedicated his life to the study of the tech of ancient people and applying the lessons learned to modern materials and design.

His organization, The Yurt Foundation, is "a nonprofit educational organization established to gather folk knowledge from the cultures of the world and place it in a contemporary framework, thereby creating a reservoir of ideas for designing ways of living that are simpler, more beautiful and more just." The website is a trove of information on this beautiful building design that, in other cultures, is quite traditional.

His handbuilt homestead (below) in Maine was made entirely from hand tools and house the Foundation and it's library and archives.