Building in Cob and Pis� De Terre: A Collection of Notes From Various Sources on the Construction of Earth Walls (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Great Britain Building Research Board

9780260834294: Building in Cob and Pis� De Terre: A Collection of Notes From Various Sources on the Construction of Earth Walls (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0260834297 ISBN 13: 9780260834294

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During the last two years some people have made a cult of building in pis� de terre, writing of it with all the enthusiasm of revivalists, and claiming that the solution of our housing problem lies in a return to the methods of our ancestors others, refusing to admit any good point in any rammed earth system, talk disparagingly of mud walls or castles of sand.

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