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Earth Architecture - Softcover

Rael, Ronald

 
9781568989457: Earth Architecture

Synopsis

Our groundbreaking survey Earth Architecture is now available in a paperback edition. Author Ronald Rael, founder of EarthArchitecture.org provides a history of building with earth in the modern era, focusing particularly on projects constructed in the last few decades that use rammed earth, mud brick, compressed earth, cob, and several other interesting techniques. Earth Architecture presents a selection of more than forty projects that exemplify new, creative uses of the oldest building material on the planet. With more than three hundred images, Earth Architecture showcases the beauty and simplicity of one of humankind's most evolved and sophisticated building technologies.

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Review

A lesson in how one of the world's oldest and most popular building processes can be renewed in a high-tech age, lending its ancient beauty to architectural works of contemporary imagination. The Globe and Mail"

About the Author

Ronald Rael is an assistant professor of architecture at the University of Arizona. He is the founder of Eartharchitecture.org, a clearing house of information on the subject.

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