Hot Dirt Cool Straw: Nature-Friendly Houses for 21st Century Living
8 1/2 x 11 250 color illustrations US and Canada Distribution architecture Ecologically designed homes have come a long way since the '60s, when the focus was largely on energy efficiency. Hot Dirt... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0823023362
ISBN13:9780823023363
Release Date:June 2001
Publisher:Watson-Guptill Publications
Length:192 Pages
Weight:1.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"
Customer Reviews
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Not just strawbale and rammed earth.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
A current topic, "green" architecture has a broad, reasonable definition in this book. One often thinks of green house books as full of solar and straw bale houses of middling design (whatever the sensitivity of the construction). The book categorizes several ways buildings can be green, and shows a variety of houses with designs as (or more) innovative as their green techniques. The photographs are well done, and of (for the most part) really good-looking houses. I think the "Lakeside Residence," "Howard House," and "Low Compound" are especially memorable. A good book for those interested in current, contemporary architecture as well as green architecture.
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