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world wide, we still use stone, wood, concrete, Straw or Thatch even clay and mud.
The biggest improvements we've made when it comes to building materials is the two most common metals we use which is Iron and Steel when building skyscrapers and other large buildings.
We still use basically same components for building a home, may be we have using its better version and they are
Mud - One of the most affordable buildings materials
Stones - Strong element used to build palaces and castles, and today we use it specially for exterior walls
Wood - In many modern homes like old one entire house are build using it.