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CASBA PUBLICATIONS & MERCHANDISE
Fractal Architecture: Design for Sustainability fills the gap between concepts of sustainability and the practice of environmental design. It is based on the assumption that sustainability and environmental design are not just industrial era (Modernist) design in green clothing, but a whole new direction with its own philosophy, techniques and expression. While this book is radical in the amount of change it calls for in environmental design professions and practice, it is conservative in emphasizing the traditional concerns of designers with geometry, history and aesthetics. Great effort has been made to integrate the text and graphics of this book in the spirit of holism inherent in sustainability........................................................... $55.00 + $2.50 p&h
Design of Straw Bale Buildings
........................$32.00 + $2.50 p&h
Bruce King along with many of the contributing authors are
CASBA members. This book
is the current "State of the Art" for SB design.
"This is intended to serve as an engineering guidebook. It has
been written as
much as possible to be accessible to any building professional, or even
layman, but
will inevitably have sections that are obscure without an engineering
background.
Nevertheless, in contrast with many other engineering texts, no
problem-and answer
sections are provided. More importantly, the book offers few cookbook
formulas that might delude the reader into a false sense of design
confidence. It is
simply not yet possible to comprehensively delineate a prescriptive way
of designing
or building with straw bales, if in fact it really is with any building
material."
Published in 2000 this is a sourcebook of straw bale construction detail information that can be useful in the development of specific designs. However these are not construction drawings and are intended only as a design aid. Final details, as always, must be developed for specific conditions and circumstances.
also available:
Build It With Bales .......................................... $30.00 + $1.50 p&h (limited quantity in stock)
New Strawbale House
.....................................
$35.00 + $1.50 p&h
EcoNest by
Robert LaPorte and Paula Baker-LaPorte ...... $15 + $1.50 p&h
If ordering more than one book p&h is $4.25
CASBA Tee Shirts .........................................$15.25 + $2.00 p&h
Please include check in US$, payable to CASBA/Tides Center - no
sales tax req'd.
Mail to:
CASBA
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Angels Camp, CA 95222-1293