
Building with Earth
Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture
Gernot Minke(Author)
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
1st Edition
Published on 5. May 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
199 pages
978-3-7643-7477-8 (ISBN)
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Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Product notice
Klappenbroschur
Illustrations
496 s/w Abbildungen, 90 farbige Abbildungen
496 b/w and 90 col. ill.
Dimensions
Height: 28 cm
Width: 22 cm
Weight
895 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7643-7477-8 (9783764374778)
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Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture Fifth and revised edition
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Person
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.