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Adobe houses for today : flexible plans for your adobe home / Laura Sanchez, Alex Sanchez

By:

Sanchez, Laura, (1944-)

Contributor(s):

Sanchez, Alex

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Santa Fe, NM : Sunstone Press , c2001.Edition: 1st edDescription: 198 p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN:

9780865343207

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

691.4 SAN

LOC classification:

NA7224.6 .S26 2001

Summary: This work features 12 plans for building adobe homes in modern and traditional styles, which can be expanded to fit readers' own budgets, family sizes, style preferences, and building sites. After a brief look at adobe's history, the book surveys adobe's advantages as a building material, illustrates adobe construction techniques with b&w photos and construction drawings, and explains facts and myths of energy conservation with adobe. This revised edition contains a new chapter with stories from real-life adobe home builders. The author and her husband have taught courses in adobe construction, and have written previous books on architectural computer graphics.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	691.4 SAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		038453

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-198) and index.

This work features 12 plans for building adobe homes in modern and traditional styles, which can be expanded to fit readers' own budgets, family sizes, style preferences, and building sites. After a brief look at adobe's history, the book surveys adobe's advantages as a building material, illustrates adobe construction techniques with b&w photos and construction drawings, and explains facts and myths of energy conservation with adobe. This revised edition contains a new chapter with stories from real-life adobe home builders. The author and her husband have taught courses in adobe construction, and have written previous books on architectural computer graphics.

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