The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage

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Ianto Evans Michael G. Smith

The Hand-Sculpted House

A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage

Ianto Evans, Michael G. Smith, Linda Smiley , Deanne Bednar

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English

Chelsea Green
03 July 2002

Industrial: Commercial Art & Design; Applied ecology; Building construction & materials; Building skills & trades

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"Are you ready for the Cob Cottage? This is a building method so old and so simple that it has been all but forgotten in the rush to synthetics. A cob cottage,cobb, however, might be the ultimate expression of ecological design, a structure so attuned to its surroundings that its creators refer to it as ""an ecstatic house."" The authors build a house the way others create a natural garden. They use the oldest, most available materials imaginable - earth, clay, sand, straw, and water - and blend them to redefine the future (and past) of building. Cob (the word comes from an Old English root, meaning ""lump"") is a mixture of non-toxic, recyclable, and often free materials. Building with cob requires no forms, no cement, and no machinery of any kind. Builders actually sculpt their structures by hand. Building with earth is nothing new to America; the oldest structures on the continent were built with adobe bricks. Adobe, however, has been geographically limited to the Southwest. The limits of cob are defined only by the builder's imagination. Cob offers answers regarding our role in Nature, family and society, about why we feel the ways that we do, about what's missing in our lives. Cob comes as a revelation, a key to a saner world."

By: Ianto Evans, Michael G. Smith, Linda Smiley
Illustrated by: Deanne Bednar
Imprint: Chelsea Green
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 204mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 723g
ISBN: 9781890132347
ISBN 10: 1890132349
Pages: 346
Publication Date: 03 July 2002
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified