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Author | : David Pearson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781850299851 |
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Practical and inspiring, this volume sets out the basic principles of the healing home and aims to show us how we can create a home that is healthy, harmonious and ecologically sound. The book examines the interior elements from air and light to furniture and furnishings. It looks at living spaces themselves - from sleeping to eating spaces - and how to introduce comfort and a sense of well-being into the home. A 16-page essay highlights organic buildings, independent energy supplies and living off the grid, and the spiritual principles of the healing home.
Author | : David Pearson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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Combining home design with health and environmental concerns, Gaia Books has created a hands-on, lavishly illustrated guide to making any home a healthier, more harmonious place to live. More than 100 color photographs.
Author | : David Pearson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781850293262 |
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Using detailed instructions, charts and photographs, this book shows how we can turn our homes into safe, healthy, ecologically sound and pleasant havens. It shows you how to choose natural materials, how to live with clean air, water and natural light, and how to create a home with style.
Author | : David Pearson |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0684847337 |
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Gathers ideas and advice on building, decorating, furnishing, and living with a toxin-free home built from natural materials.
Author | : Arthur Andersson |
Publisher | : Princeton Architectural Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2010-04-07 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781568988795 |
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For Arthur Andersson and Chris Wise, the fundamental elements that give buildings meaning are found in nature.Imbuing day-to-day activities with poetry and awe, their designs address both pragmatic needs and the psychological yearning for refuge and contemplation, centering and escape, joy and comfort. Their work is best experienced through the senses. Tactility, expressed through an eloquence of craft, the use of textured materials, and the logical design of structural systems, gives their buildings a rightness within the landscape. In their hands, daylight becomes a building material. Small wall apertures, three-sided dormers, clerestories, and other details grab, bend, and thread sunlight from one end of their houses to the other. Full of light and atmosphere, the houses are the physical embodiment of the great Charles Moore's influential tenet that architecture is about enhancing a sense of place. Natural Houses presents seven of the Austin, Texas-based firm's exquisitely crafted projects. Precise and cool, with forms often derived from the American vernacular of barns and cottages, these are painstakingly crafted houses made from regionally appropriate and aesthetically timeless materials. Natural Houses presents a range of sites and residences—from a small cabin in the woods to a multibuilding camp. Sited on a cliff, the House Above Lake Austin uses terraces to descend its steeply hilly site. The building's simple materials celebrate thesite and climate not by drawing attention to themselves, but by blending in. The stone foundation is similarly tied to the natural stone of the mountain. Smooth plaster walls above the stone foundation appear to have been chiseled from the rock itself. In a deceptively simple boathouse the walls fold down to become impromptu diving platforms. Exceptional photography captures the light and atmosphere of each project setting and illustrates how the firm rigorously expresses the design concept through detailing and construction. An introduction by Rick Sundberg of Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects and essays by Jen Renzi and Frederick Steiner chart the firm's evolution and influences.
Author | : Lynn Edwards |
Publisher | : Rodale |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2003-04-05 |
Genre | : House & Home |
ISBN | : 9780875969145 |
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Citing a high number of pollutants in today's indoor environments, a comprehensive guide to making organic, all-natural paint and finish alternatives offers step-by-step instructions on how to convert readily available ingredients. Original. 15,000 first printing.
Author | : David Pearson |
Publisher | : Gaia Books |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Dwellings |
ISBN | : 9781856751964 |
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This is a classic guide to creating a natural, healthy home, based on sound environmental principles
Author | : Douglas W. Tallamy |
Publisher | : Timber Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1604691468 |
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“With the twinned calamities of climate change and mass extinction weighing heavier and heavier on my nature-besotted soul, here were concrete, affordable actions that I could take, that anyone could take, to help our wild neighbors thrive in the built human environment. And it all starts with nothing more than a seed. Bringing Nature Home is a miracle: a book that summons butterflies." —Margaret Renkl, The Washington Post As development and habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. In his groundbreaking book Bringing Nature Home, Douglas W. Tallamy reveals the unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife—native insects cannot, or will not, eat alien plants. When native plants disappear, the insects disappear, impoverishing the food source for birds and other animals. Luckily, there is an important and simple step we can all take to help reverse this alarming trend: everyone with access to a patch of earth can make a significant contribution toward sustaining biodiversity by simply choosing native plants. By acting on Douglas Tallamy's practical and achievable recommendations, we can all make a difference.
Author | : Frank Lloyd Wright |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Michael Henry |
Publisher | : New Society Publishers |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2018-06-26 |
Genre | : House & Home |
ISBN | : 1771422580 |
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A veritable cookbook of natural plaster recipes and techniques for beautiful, durable finishes Natural plasters made of clay, lime, and other materials mixed with sand are beautiful building finishes. Fun to work with, low-impact, and allowing infinite creativity, they are high performance and provide proven, centuries-long durability. Yet until now there's been no resource that has pulled together the best North American plaster recipes and how-to into one place. Essential Natural Plasters covers it all: Sourcing and selecting materials, including site-soils Clay, lime, and gypsum plasters as well as fibers and amendments Interior and exterior use and specialty plasters such as tadelakt for bathrooms Preparing substrates, from straw bales and cob to lath and Sheetrock How to set up a safe, efficient worksite Mixing, testing, tinting, repairing, and applying plasters Coveted recipes from leading plasterers in Ontario, Vermont, New Mexico, France, and New Zealand. Richly illustrated and deeply researched, Essential Natural Plasters is the must-have resource for owner-builders and professionals alike.