GRASPING AT STRAWS is all the rage among a growing number of British homeowners, as Mark Phillips now shows us: When it comes to housing design, it's hard to get more retro than this: a thatched roof, ...

Perhaps the iconic image of developing-world poverty is a small collection of huts with thatched roofs. Unfortunately for those living in such places, these roofs are terrible. They leak and, when ...

Don’t be surprised if the next thatch roof you stand underneath goes “ping!” when it’s hit by a raindrop. John Symbold, owner of Symbold Inc. in Orlando, has received a patent for an aluminum thatch ...