Solar Adobe: Energy, Ecology, and Earthen Architecture

Solar Adobe: Energy, Ecology, and Earthen Architecture – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781517914066,9781517914073,1517914078,151791406X,9781452970769

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• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781452970769
• Author: Albert Narath

Utilized for centuries by the Pueblo people of the American Southwest and by Spanish colonialists, adobe construction found renewed interest as various groups contended with the troubled legacies of modern architecture and an increasingly urgent need for sustainable design practices. In this period of critical experimentation, design networks that included architects, historians, counterculture communities, government weapons labs, and Indigenous activists all looked to adobe as a means to address pressing environmental and political issues.

Albert Narath charts the unique capacities of adobe construction across a wide range of contexts, consistently troubling simple distinctions between traditional and modern technologies, high design and vernacular architecture. Drawing insightful parallels between architecture, environmentalism, and movements for Indigenous sovereignty, Solar Adobe stresses the importance of considering the history of the built environment in conjunction with architecture’s larger impact on the natural world.

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