Dollens, Dennis.

Simone Swan : adobe building / Dennis Dollens.

Santa Fe, N.M. : SITES Books, ©2005.

72 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

"Like an organism sitting and breathing on its site in the Chihuahuan desert, the Swan House is a building of organic beauty and hybrid cultural intelligence. Simon Swan has created an architectural and environmental project that re-examines and promotes traditional adobe building while introducing compatible forms, such as the Nubian vault and dome." "Swan studied with the great Egyptian architect, Hassan Fathy, in his Cairo studio and after his death in 1989 adopted his mission of helping house the world's poor." "Simon Swan: Adobe Building is the first book to discuss and illustrate Swan's architecture while also chronicling one of her annual workshops in Dollens's first-hand account. Dollen's suggests that by biologically analyzing historic adobe we may be able to hybridize its constituents as replacements for current toxic materials, creating new biomimetic, adobe-related building materials suitable for green architecture."--Jacket.

0930829581
9780930829582

Swan, Simone.
Adobe houses Texas.
Architecture Arid regions.
Architecture, Domestic Texas.
Vernacular architecture Texas.
Maisons en adobe Texas.
Maisons en adobe Texas Conception et construction.
Architecture Régions arides.
Architecture vernaculaire Texas.
Adobe houses.
Architecture, Domestic.
Vernacular architecture.
Adobe
Hausbau
Texas.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 245428
Cote: BIB 175062
Statut: Disponible