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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | Only 1 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | This book reminds us that most of what we need to know is simply what we've already forgotten. John Taylor's trained eye and skilled hand celebrate details of:
-- Thousand-year-old earth-sheltered houses in China
-- Passive solar heating designs of the Pueblo Indians
-- Natural air conditioning systems built in the Middle East.
-- Modular building techniques used in Japan 500 years agoThis is a book for builders, students, and anyone seeking stimulation for the imagination. Author and architect John Taylor's exacting eye, intricate sketches, and hand-written notes are gentle reminders that observation, even more than technology, is the best source of innovation. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | John S. Taylor | | Paperback: | 160 pages | | Publisher: | Chelsea Green Publishing Company | | Publication Date: | 1997-09 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1890132020 | | Package Length: | 9.17 inches | | Package Width: | 6.13 inches | | Package Height: | 0.45 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 4 reviews |
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64 of 64 found the following review helpful:
 A Shelter Sketchbook Apr 03, 2000
I came across this book while assembling reference material for planning a treehouse at the cottage. While most of the books I was looking at were hands-on/how-to type, I found this book interesting, and there are a few ideas in the book I can definitely use. At first glance, the book has, as the title implies, just a bunch of sketches - each page has four or five architectual details and hand-written notes explaining or referencing the drawing. Despite the rough-draft appearance, though, there is a lot of organizing of the 600+ drawings, and they obviously draw on a wealth of structure details. Examples range from villas in ancient Greece, Japanese houses, African huts, Aztec dwellings, to the current UNESCO headquarters in Paris and modern Frank Lloyd Wright homes. The book is arranged in three sections: protection (from sun, wind, cold, water); accomodating human needs (sleeping, cooking, eating, sitting, etc.); and structural elements themselves (roofs, doors, windows). Each section draws on examples from all parts of the world, and much of history, to show how, in many cases, simple solutions from 'simple' people, and even animals, solve basic living problems, and I found it quite interesting how different cultures at different times came up with similar solutions to such things as drainage, ventilation, etc. I found the ideas in this book useful for my treehouse project because I wanted simple construction, low cost, and flexibility, and the concepts in the book, being drawn as they were from basic construction principles, quite practical. This book would likely be of interest to several groups of readers: those studying architecture (there is an extensive bibliography), those building or designing energy-efficient homes (it is somewhat humbling to see so many concepts that we may think are new and radical, that natives somewhere have been doing for centuries!), or just for general interest (the book explains such things as roof angles on saltbox houses, cupolas, etc.)
 One of my favorites Jan 11, 2007
By nobreakspace
If I had to start my architecture library all over again, I'd start with this book. The Designer's Eye is also a very good, inspired refence book.
A little bit of every other book. Feb 18, 2003
By Scott Knudsen
This book seems to have sketches of just about everything to do with Shelter. I have seen most of these pictures in full colour
at one time or another after having read lots of other books on architecture, but it is quite nice to have them all sorted out in
one book, each with a short description.
4 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Ideas and ideas that have worked Mar 08, 2001
By kerry
The book was recommended to me as a sourse for a shade problem I have with my house. I live on the West Coast in California's Central Valley. Our house is in the middle of a large pasture. We have NO shade. The trees we have planted will not have any shade value for many years. The West side of the house bakes in the summer. What I wanted was a solution to my problem. An aesthetic design and technical information on shading our house with structures, vegetative, and or fabric (pictures, line drawing, Etc.What the book provided was many ideas for what I wanted not the solution. I am happy with the book and will use it for many projects. I enjoyed reading and looking at the pictures.
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