Building with Earth: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture - Softcover

Minke, Gernot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3034608225 ISBN 13: 9783034608220

Publisher: Birkhäuser, 2012

Synopsis

For a number of years, the healthy and environment-friendly building material earth, in common use for thousands of years, has been enjoying increasing popularity, including in industrialized nations. In hot dry and temperate climate zones, earth offers numerous advantages over other materials. Its particular texture and composition also holds great aesthetic appeal.

The second and revised edition of this handbook offers a practical systematic overview of the many uses of earth 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 all over the world. Numerous photographs of construction sites and drawings show the concrete execution of earth architecture.

Prof. Dr. Gernot Minke is a professor at Universität Kassel, where he leads the Forschungslabor für Experimentelles Bauen. He has long concerned himself with developments in ecological building, and he has dealt with the building material clay in theory and practice since 1977. His book Building with Straw was also published by Birkhäuser.

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Gernot Minke, Universität Kassel, Germany.

Edition details

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 3034608225
• ISBN 13: 9783034608220
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 208