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The Hand-Sculpted House : A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob

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État
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Features
Illustrated, First Printing
ISBN
9781890132347
Book Title
Hand-Sculpted House : a Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage
Item Length
10in
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Publication Year
2002
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.9in
Author
Michael G. Smith, Linda Smiley, Ianto Evans
Genre
House & Home
Topic
Design & Construction, Do-It-Yourself / General
Item Width
8in
Item Weight
25.6 Oz
Number of Pages
384 Pages

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"The Hand-Sculpted House inspired me to learn and do more and transformed how I saw homes and building in general."--Mother Earth News "If you follow it word for word you will build yourself a house no matter who you are."--Builder Paul Dillon, quoted in The Irish Times Are you ready for the Cob Cottage? This is a building method so old and so simple that it has been all but forgotten in the rush to synthetics. A cob cottage, however, might be the ultimate expression of ecological design, a structure so attuned to its surroundings that its creators refer to it as "an ecstatic house." The authors build a house the way others create a natural garden. They use the oldest, most available materials imaginable-earth, clay, sand, straw, and water-and blend them to redefine the future (and past) of building. Cob (the word comes from an Old English root, meaning "lump") is a mixture of non-toxic, recyclable, and often free materials. Building with cob requires no forms, no cement, and no machinery of any kind. Builders actually sculpt their structures by hand. Building with earth is nothing new to America; the oldest structures on the continent were built with adobe bricks. Adobe, however, has been geographically limited to the Southwest. The limits of cob are defined only by the builder's imagination. Cob offers answers regarding our role in Nature, family and society, about why we feel the ways that we do, about what's missing in our lives. Cob comes as a revelation, a key to a saner world. Cob has been a traditional building process for millennia in Europe, even in rainy and windy climates like the British Isles, where many cob buildings still serve as family homes after hundreds of years. Cob houses (or cottages, since they are always efficiently small by American construction standards) are not only compatible with their surroundings, they ARE their surroundings, literally rising up from the earth. They are full of light, energy-efficient, and cozy, with curved walls and built-in, whimsical touches. They are delightful. They are ecstatic.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN-10
1890132349
ISBN-13
9781890132347
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2269641

Product Key Features

Book Title
Hand-Sculpted House : a Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage
Author
Michael G. Smith, Linda Smiley, Ianto Evans
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Design & Construction, Do-It-Yourself / General
Publication Year
2002
Genre
House & Home
Number of Pages
384 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
10in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
8in
Item Weight
25.6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Th4818.A3
Illustrated by
Bednar, Deanne
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
693/.22
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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  • So far so good.

    I'm still reading the book. It seems though, to be a well written book with a lot of pertinent information. Great use of Illustrations to picture the idea being conveyed.

    Achat vérifié : OuiÉtat : OccasionVendu par : thrift.books

  • Build your own cob house!

    Excellent book on all things cob. Extensive writing on the history, technicalities of building and possible problems and their solutions all wrapped in hippy back-to-the-land philosophy. If that's what you're looking for you will find it in this book.

    Achat vérifié : OuiÉtat : OccasionVendu par : greatbookprices1

  • Cob houses r awesome.

    This book is in great condition and the reading is even better!

    Achat vérifié : OuiÉtat : OccasionVendu par : second.sale

  • The Hand-Sculpted House by Evans, Smiley, Smith

    I purchased The Hand-Sculpted House recently and was immediately riveted by this well written book. Anyone interested in building with renewable materials would be able to absorb the information needed to take on their project. I liked that the writers were knowledgable and had obviously researched many techniques and shared them with precise detailed descriptions. The only dislikes I could mention is that I would have LOVED more colored pictures of finished projects and a few avenues of building were cut short with another book (of their writings) recommended to purchase.

  • hand sculpted house

    very informative and inspiring. Wish I was 30 years younger and I would attempt to put this info to action.

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