Building With Earth: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture - Couverture souple

Minke, Gernot

 
9783764389925: Building With Earth: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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 977. His book Building with Straw was also published by Birkhäuser.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gernot Minke ist Hochschullehrer an der Universität Kassel, wo er das Forschungslabor für Experimentelles Bauen leitet und sich seit langem mit Entwicklungen des ökologischen Bauens beschäftigt. Mit dem Baustoff Lehm befaßt er sich in Theorie und Praxis seit 977. Sein Buch «Building with Straw» ist ebenfalls bei Birkhäuser erschienen.

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9783764374778: Building With Earth: Design And Technology of a Sustainable Architecture

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  3764374772 ISBN 13 :  9783764374778
Editeur : Birkhauser Verlag AG, 2006
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