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The Barefoot Architect: A Handbook for Green Building

The Barefoot Architect: A Handbook for Green Building


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The Barefoot Architect is a book dedicated to helping economically-challenged tropical builders learn how to provide shelter, clean water, electrical energy, and sanitation by using indigenous, low-cost, sustainable building materials.

The Barefoot Architect is author Johan van Lengen's gift to the under-priveleged, ill-housed of the tropical world. As a former UN worker and successful architect, van Lengen saw the need for a book explaining in simple language, well-illustrated with lucid graphics, the process of building housing and providing a healthful environment. The theme of the book is that it is always best to search for the simplest solution with what one has on hand.



Table of Contents:

Preface

Introduction

How to Use This Manual

1. Design

2. Humid Tropics

3. Dry Tropics

4. Temperate Zone

5. Materials

6. Construction

7. Energy

8. Water

9. Sanitation

10. Appendix

  • Materials and Heat
  • Measurements
  • Mixtures
  • Climate Zones
  • Angles

Glossary

Bibliography

Index



About the Author :

Johan van Lengen was born in the Netherlands, studied architecture in Canada, and received his architectural degree in 1960 from the University of Oregon. In the early '70s, largely influenced by the Whole Earth Catalog, he abandoned a successful career as an architect in San Francisco to work on providing better housing for the disadvantaged in Latin America. He moved to Brazil, where he and his wife, Rose, founded TIBA (Bio-Architecture and Intuitive Technology), an institute for alternative building technology in the Mata Atlantica, the eastern coastal jungle of Brazil. At the same time, the van Lengen family started converting abandoned grasslands into tropical forest.

Johan has also worked for the United Nations and a number of government agencies in Latin America. At TIBA, he continues to develop new ideas in construction technology and ways to transfer this knowledge to the self-help builders in his workshops.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780936070421
  • Publisher: Shelter Publications Inc.,U.S.
  • Publisher Imprint: Shelter Publications Inc.,U.S.
  • Height: 215 mm
  • No of Pages: 704
  • Spine Width: 45 mm
  • Weight: 965 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0936070420
  • Publisher Date: 15 Nov 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Handbook for Green Building
  • Width: 139 mm


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