Building with Vision: Optimizing and Finding Alternatives to Wood: 02 (Wood Reduction Trilogy) - Softcover

Imhoff, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0970950004 ISBN 13: 9780970950000

Publisher: Watershed Media, 2001

Synopsis

Part green building primer, part architectural photo essay, this is an essential resource for professionals and homeowners interested in the leading edge of environmental building. Imhoff traveled extensively to document and photograph beautiful and novel alternatives to wood intensive-building.

Building with Vision is the first book to link residential building with forest impacts. Nearly 1.5 million new houses are built in the United States each year, 90 percent framed with wood, and the average house consuming an acre's worth of trees. But as Building with Vision shows, from framing and siding to new building systems and finish materials, there are many ways architects, contractors, and homeowners can make high-quality, resourceful, long-lasting and beautiful decisions. Details include building techniques as well as materials, including Styrofoam, steel, concrete, straw bales, rammed earth, adobe and much more.

About this title

About the Author

Daniel Imhoff is Executive Director of Watershed Media, a nonprofit communications agency located in Northern California. He and photographer/designer Roberto Carra have collaborated on four previous books, including Farming with the Wild: Enchancing Biodiversity on Farms and Ranchers (Sierra Club Books, 2003)

From the Back Cover

""Building with Vision" is timely and extremely useful, a must-have resource for every architectural studio across the country."--Sim Van der Ryn, architect
"A lens into the future of building."--Zahid, Sardar, "San Franciso Chronicle"

Edition details

• Publisher: Watershed Media
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0970950004
• ISBN 13: 9780970950000
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136