Earth USA 2026 - Preliminary Poster Presentation Schedule
Last Updated August 7, 2026
Poster Session #1 (Friday, September 18 from 3:30 - 4:30pm)
Author: Lydia Desormeaux (New Orleans, LA, USA)
Poster Presentation: ÁPULUSLEH TO BOUSILLAGE: REMEMBRING THE INDIGENOUS HISTORY OF LOUISIANA'S VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE
Institutional Affiliation: Tulane University
Author: Caitlin Charlet (Boulder, CO, USA)
Poster Presentation: BUILDING FOR DECOMPOSITION: DESIGNING ARCHITECTURE'S RETURN TO EARTH
Institutional Affiliation: University of Colorado Boulder Environmental Design Department
Author: Camila Cassundé (West Lafayette, IN, USA)
Poster Presentation: BUILDING PATHOLOGY EVALUATION OF A FULL-SCALE ADOBE EVAPORATIVE COOLER IN BRAZIL
Institutional Affiliation: Purdue University
Authors: Jill Maria Wagner, Frederick Walters (Plummer, ID, USA)
Poster Presentation: COMPLEXITIES OF INTERPRETING AND MAINTAINING COEUR D’ALENES’ OLD MISSION
Institutional Affiliation: Coeur d'Alene Tribe Staff
Author: Amanda Chambers (Bristol, UK)
Poster Presentation: ‘FOR WHAT WE ARE ABOUT TO…’ - EARTH AS A CONCEPTUAL ART MEDIUM …. A SCULPTOR’S JOURNEY
Author: Alex Cohen (Seattle, WA, USA)
Poster Presentation: ENVISIONING CEB FOR FIAMBALA
Institutional Affiliation: University of Washington, DLR Group
Poster Session #2 (Saturday, September 19 from 9:00 - 10:00am)
Authors: Gonzalo José López Garrido, Diana Cristóbal Olave (San Luis Obispo, CA, USA)
Poster Presentation: A DIRT[Y] BENCH. EARTHLOGS FOR A HYBRID EARTHEN CONSTRUCTION
Institutional Affiliation: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Authors: Laura Villegas, Fabio Matta (Columbia, SC, USA)
Poster Presentation: EXPERIMENTALLY VALIDATED DESIGN-ORIENTED MODEL FOR EARTH MASONRY WALLS UNDER IN-PLANE LOADS
Institutional Affiliation: University of South Carolina
Author: M. Walker (Austin, TX, USA)
Poster Presentation: MUD AND METRICS: A STUDY OF EARTHEN RESILIENCE & BUILDING PERFORMANCE IN THE HIGH DESERT
Institutional Affiliation: Positive Energy & Phius Alliance US
Authors: Gerilyn (Lynn) Soreghan, Alexis Griner (Norman, OK, USA)
Poster Presentation: PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS OF EARTHEN-CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS FROM NEW MEXICO
Institutional Affiliation: School of Geosciences, University of Oklahoma
Authors: Catalina Reyna-Ruiz, Jose Manuel Gómez-Soberón & María Neftalí Rojas-Valencia (New Orleans, LA, USA)
Poster Presentation: COMPARISSON OF STABILIZATION AGENTS: LIME VS CEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CSEB THAT INCORPORATE CLOSED LOOP MATERIALS
Institutional Affiliation: Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya Barcelonatech
Author: Elisabetta Maria Schmidtlein (Vienna, Austria)
Poster Presentation: FROM SOIL TO STRUCTURE: GEOLOGICAL DIVERSITY OF EARTHEN MATERIALS IN TUSCANY AND THEIR POTENTIAL – A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY
Institutional Affiliation: TU Wien, Faculty of Architecture and Planning / BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
Poster Session #3 (Saturday, September 19 from 4:00 - 5:00pm)
Author: Tiffanie Leung (University Park, PA, USA)
Poster Presentation: FROM WASTE TO WALL: RECYCLING POSTCONSUMER TEXTILE MATERIALS AS EARTHBAG CONTAINERS FOR WALL ASSEMBLIES
Institutional Affiliation: Pennsylvania State University
Authors: Shawn Protz, Devesh Balakrishnan, Lira Gomes (Raleigh, NC, USA)
Poster Presentation: BUILDING FOR BEES: EARTHEN CONSTRUCTION AS ECOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR URBAN POLLINATORS
Institutional Affiliation: North Carolina State University
Author: Lisa Moffitt (Ottawa, Canada)
Poster Presentation: EXPRESSIVE, INSULATIVE, ORNAMENTAL: THREE SPECULATIVE RAW EARTH WALL ASSEMBLIES FOR OTTAWA, CANADA
Institutional Affiliation: Carleton University
Authors: S. J. Armistead, R. A. Mikofsky, D. N. Beatty, E. Taylor, O. Campsie, W. V. Srubar III (Boulder, CO, USA)
Poster Presentation: TAILORING THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF BIO-STABILIZED EARTH
Institutional Affiliation: University of Colorado Boulder
Author: David J. Wright (Leicester, NC, USA)
Poster Presentation: CORROSION RATE OF STEEL EMBEDDED IN COB
Institutional Affiliation: Cob Research Institute
Authors: Omid Shafigh Khatibi, Francisco Uviña-Contreras, Maryam Hojati (Albuquerque, NM, USA)
Poster Presentation: OPPORTUNITIES FOR REUSING EARTH-BASED MATERIALS FROM WATER REFINEMENT SYSTEMS IN CONSTRUCTION
Institutional Affiliation: School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico
Authors: Ana Perdigão Antunes, Ana Velosa (Porto, Portugal)
Poster Presentation: EARTH AS WASTE OR RESOURCE? CIRCULAR ECONOMY, MARKET POTENTIAL AND THE REVIVAL OF ADOBE CONSTRUCTION IN PORTUGAL
Institutional Affiliation: Aveiro University
Poster Session #4 (Sunday, September 20 from 9:00 - 10:00am)
Authors: Adam Marcus, Delaram Khoshhal (New Orleans, LA, USA)
Poster Presentation: 3D PRINTED CLAY–BAGASSE COMPOSITES FOR MASONRY WALL CONSTRUCTION
Institutional Affiliation: Tulane University
Author: Ahina Sinha (Charlottesville, VA, USA)
Poster Presentation: EARTHEN RHETORICS: MODERNITY, MUD, AND MATERIAL AGENCY
Institutional Affiliation: University of Virginia
Author: Akshita Sivakumar (Davis, CA, USA)
Poster Presentation: REFLEXIVE RELATIONALITY THROUGH EARTH-FIBER ASSEMBLIES
Institutional Affiliation: University of California Davis
Authors: Francisco Hernández, Edmundo Terán (Mexico City, Mexico)
Poster Presentation: EARTH AND FEATHER HOUSE. AMAXAC DE GUERRERO TLAXCALA, MEXICO
Institutional Affiliation: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Architecture Faculty
Author: Hyacinth Pinto (Goa, India / Tentative)
Poster Presentation: ADAPTIVE REUSE OF EARTHERN STRUCTURES - EXAMPLES FROM GOA, INDIA
Institutional Affiliation: Goa College of Architecture, Goa University
Author: Jorge Luis De Olarte Tristan (Lima, Peru / Tentative)
Poster Presentation: SISTEMA SISMORRESISTENTE DE ALBAÑILERÍA ARMADA CON BLOQUES DE TIERRA COMPRIMIDA (BTC)
Institutional Affiliation: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
