Building with earth
Subtitle: design and technology of a sustainable architecture
By: Gernot Minke.
Contributors: Minke, Gernot.
Publisher: Birkhauser-Publishers for Architecture
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Basel; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9783764374778
Subjects: Earth construction; Sustainable buildings -- Design and construction; Sustainable architecture; Buildings -- Environmental engineering
Description: "This handbook offers a practical, systematic overview of the many uses of loam, or clayey soil, and the wide variety of techniques for processing it. Furthermore, the book explains particular building methods relating to prefabricated panels, direct forming with loam, weather protection or earthquake resistance. Numerous drawings and photos of construction sites show the concrete execution of earth architecture. Twenty-seven exemplary international projects illustrate the wide spectrum of design possibilities with earth."--Jacket.
Notes: Loosely based on the German publication: Das neue Lehmbau-Handbuch, originally published in 1994 and now in its sixth ed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-199).