Hot Dirt Cool Straw: Nature-Friendly Houses for 21st Century Living

by Dennis Wedlick, James Trulove, James Grayson Trulove, et al.

8 1/2 x 11 250 color illustrations US and Canada Distribution architecture Ecologically designed homes have come a long way since the '60s, when the focus was largely on energy efficiency. Hot Dirt... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823023362
• ISBN13: 9780823023363
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Not just strawbale and rammed earth.

A current topic, "green" architecture has a broad, reasonable definition in this book. One often thinks of green house books as full of solar and straw bale houses of middling design (whatever the sensitivity of the construction). The book categorizes several ways buildings can be green, and shows a variety of houses with designs as (or more) innovative as their green techniques. The photographs are well done, and of (for the most part) really good-looking houses. I think the "Lakeside Residence," "Howard House," and "Low Compound" are especially memorable. A good book for those interested in current, contemporary architecture as well as green architecture.