Building with earth : design and technology of a sustainable architecture / Gernot Minke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Minke, Gernot.

Contributor:

Minke, Gernot.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Earth construction.

Sustainable buildings--Design and construction.

Sustainable buildings.

Sustainable architecture.

Buildings--Environmental engineering.

Buildings.

Physical Description:

199 pages : many illustrations (partly color), plans ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Basel ; Boston, MA : Birkhauser-Publishers for Architecture, 2006.

Summary:

For a number of years, the healthy and environment-friendly building material clay, in common use for thousands of years, has been enjoying increasing popularity, including in industrialized nations. In hot dry and temperate climate zones, clay offers numerous advantages over other materials. Its particular texture and composition also holds great aesthetic appeal. This handbook offers a practical systematic overview of the many uses of clay and techniques for processing it. Its properties and physical characteristics are described in informed and knowledgeable detail. The author's presentation reflects the rich and varied experiences gained over thirty years of building earth structures in Germany and abroad. Numerous photographs of construction sites and drawings show the concrete execution of clay architecture.

Notes:

Loosely based on the German publication: Das neue Lehmbau-Handbuch, first published in 1994 and now in its sixth ed.

Includes bibliographical references.

Related Work:

Minke, Gernot. Neue Lehmbau-Handbuch.

ISBN:

3764374772

OCLC:

69734653

Publisher Number:

9783764374778