生土建筑有着悠久的历史。那些过去被认为是象征贫穷落后的土房和窑洞,现在反而引起了第三世界甚至一些发达国家建筑界人士的广泛兴趣。近年来,联合国的科技组织和一些国际学术团体曾先后以生土建筑为课题,举办了各种学术会议和展览会,出版了一些专刊。去年,美国、日本、比利时等国家的建筑师和其它专家还专门来我国考察窑洞和生土建筑。本文拟就国外生土建筑的情况和发展趋向作一些介绍,供大家参考。 Raw soil construction has a long history. Those earth houses and cave dwellings, which were once considered to be symbolic of poverty and backwardness, have now caused widespread interest among the people of the third world and even some developed countries. In recent years, the United Nations scientific and technological organizations and some international academic organizations have successively held various academic conferences and exhibitions with raw soil construction as their subject, and published some special issues. Last year, architects and other experts from the United States, Japan, Belgium, and other countries also came to China to inspect caves and raw soil buildings. This article plans to give some introductions on the conditions and development trends of foreign raw soil construction for your reference.