Pineapple Lounge
General Store
The Hot House, Dark MoFO MONA, Tasmania, 2016
Dja Mandji, 2019
Chai Tea House
Tea House
Bamboo Woven Amphitheatre
Iggy's Mobile Bakery
Library of the Leaves
Sandstage
Agritecture
Kura Kura
Special Projects
The Hot House, Dark MoFO MONA, Tasmania, 2016
Bamboo U
Manipur World Bamboo Workshop
The Corridor Project, Cowra, 2024
Education, Workshops, Agritecture
Puebla, Mexico
Workshops
BaleBio
Indobamboo Social Housing Pilot
Labuan Bajo Pavilion
Planting Festival
Grow Your Own City
Sandstage, Woodford
Warraw’
Garma
Vigil
Cave Urban Art Book 2011 - 2025
Cave Urban Folio 1:
'Bamboo and Lightweight Structures'
The first Cave Urban research folio 'Bamboo and Lightweight Structures' was compiled in order to share information on bamboo as a resource and design material. The folio is an exploration of projects by architects, designers and communities across the world, focusing on historical and modern vernacular building techniques using a variety of materials. It is the first of three folios and includes our own research into bamboo and lightweight structures with the resulting prototypes, mentors, concepts and field trips.
Project Specific Folios
Near Kin Kin Folio
Woven Sky Folio
Hothouse MONA Folio
ANGB Paperbark Treehouse
Agritecture Folio - Bamboo Vietnam with UTAS
Resources
Our favourite books and websites that have influenced our practices so far…
BOOKS
Alessandro Rocca – Natural Architecture
Marcelo Villegas – Guadua: Arquitectura y Diseno
Vitra Design Museum – Grow Your Own House
David Suzuki – The Autobiography
Paul Memmott – Gunyah Goondie and Wurley
Philip Jodidio – Shigeru Ban: Complete Works 1985-2010
Enrico Guidoni – Primitive Architecture
William McDonough & Michael Braungart – Cradle to Cradle
University of Stuttgart, director Frei Otto – IL 31 Bambus – Bambu
Oscar Hidalgo Lopez – Gift of the Gods
Joe Earle – New Bamboo
BLOGS
Tectonica: architecture, technology and construction – tectonicablog.com (spanish)
Marco Cassagrande – http://marcocasagrande.fi/
International Network for Bamboo and Rattan – www.inbar.int
Desert Domes – desertdomes.com
24H homepage – www.24h-architecture.com
Vo Trong Nghia homepage – www.votrongnghia.com
Construction with Bamboo – www.conbam.info
Advanced Bamboo applications – www.bambus-conbam.de
Generation Bambou – www.generation-bambou.org (french)
Jörg Stamm – www.ecobamboo.net
Faculty of Architecture RWTH http://bambus.rwth-aachen.de
Giant Grass – www.giantgrassdesign.com
Ibuku, green school builders – ibuku.com
Environmental Bamboo Foundation – www.bamboocentral.org
Amercian Bamboo Society – bamboo.org
BAMBOO CONNECTIONS
Publications and Media
Media
Design Anthology, 2026
Detail, 2025
Bauhaus Earth, 2025
Bamboo U Podcast, 2023
Broadsheet, 2019
Design Boom, 2025
Australian Design Review, 2025
Design Boom, 2025
Architecture Bulletin, December, 2022
This is Colossal, Woven Sky, 2017
ArchDaily, 2025
The Business Times, 2022
Jed Long, Architecture Bulletin, 2016
Habit us living, 2025
Architecture Bulletin, Leave No-One Behind, 2024
Architecture AU, 2022
Architecture AU, 2015
ArchDaily, 2025
Publications
Juan Pablo Pinto, Bamboo Art Installations and Temporary Structures in Australia; Recent Works by Cave Urban. Presented at the World Bamboo Conference in Mexico, 2018
Jed Long, The Global Bamboo Collective. Presented at the World Bamboo Conference in Mexico, 2018
Helen Norrie, Emma Hall and Jed Long. Agritecture: engaging with the environmental and ecological economy of bamboo in Vietnam. Presented at the World Bamboo Conference in Mexico, 2018
Norrie, Helen & Elliott, Harriet & Grainger, Philippa & Long, Nici & Long, Jed & Woods, Tracey, Dynamics of bamboo design and build collaborations. The Journal of Public Space, 2017
Jed Long, Churchill Fellow, 2016
Jed Long, Architecture of (Im)permanence. Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarships Journal Series. ARB, 2016
Jed Long, Working with Bamboo in Australia. Presented at the World Bamboo Conference in South Korea, 2015
Norrie, H and Woods, T, Hothousing Collaborative Research, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference and Exhibition of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia, 2-3 October 2015, Christchurch, New Zealand, pp. 179-186.
Jed Long, Irregular Architecture: The Possibility of Systems Thinking for Bamboo Architecture, 2024