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A01=Gernot Minke
Author_Gernot Minke
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=NL-AM
COP=Switzerland
Discount=15
Format=BC
Format_Paperback
HMM=280
IMPN=Birkhauser
ISBN13=9783034608220
Language_English
PA=Available
PD=20121128
POP=Basel
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
PUB=Birkhauser
Subject=Architecture
WG=948
WMM=220

Building with Earth: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture

Paperback | English

By (author): Gernot Minke

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 Universitat Kassel, where he leads the Forschungslabor fur 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 Birkhauser. See more
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Product Details
  • Format: Paperback
  • Weight: 948g
  • Dimensions: 220 x 280mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Nov 2012
  • Publisher: Birkhauser
  • Publication City/Country: Basel, Switzerland
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9783034608220
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