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

Minke, Gernot

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9783764391010: Building with Earth: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture

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Synopsis

Now in a second edition: This handbook offers a practical systematic overview of the many uses of rammed earth and techniques for processing it. Its properties and physical characteristics are described in informed and knowledgeable detail.

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About the Author

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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