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The Barefoot Architect. Self-Build Manual.
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| N° d'inventaire | 24007 |
| Format | 22 x 16.5 |
| Détails | 480 p., 1150 illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Marseille, 2020 |
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| ISBN | 9782863643617 |
Building your own house: far from an impossible dream, this idea is one of those which are now becoming increasingly common in the ever-increasing number of experiments in autonomy and sobriety.
How to do it? Where to start? With over a thousand drawings and sketches, this book describes alternative, clever, and economical solutions. Materials, shapes, sanitation systems and access to energy and drinking water: the techniques presented are easy to implement.
and within everyone's reach.
This veritable self-construction manual is the result of extensive observational work carried out in Latin America starting in the 1970s. Developed through contact with diverse populations facing poverty, material shortages, or guided by ecological awareness, it nevertheless asserts itself as an essential tool of our modernity.
This is an invitation to do it yourself, to develop your creative abilities, with a rediscovered joy in simple gestures. Because beyond the satisfaction it provides, self-construction opens up to more meaning, sharing, respect for resources and, undeniably, more freedom.
How to do it? Where to start? With over a thousand drawings and sketches, this book describes alternative, clever, and economical solutions. Materials, shapes, sanitation systems and access to energy and drinking water: the techniques presented are easy to implement.
and within everyone's reach.
This veritable self-construction manual is the result of extensive observational work carried out in Latin America starting in the 1970s. Developed through contact with diverse populations facing poverty, material shortages, or guided by ecological awareness, it nevertheless asserts itself as an essential tool of our modernity.
This is an invitation to do it yourself, to develop your creative abilities, with a rediscovered joy in simple gestures. Because beyond the satisfaction it provides, self-construction opens up to more meaning, sharing, respect for resources and, undeniably, more freedom.
" Making do with what we have, that is, using this world and not another. There is a need to put our feet back on the ground. The barefoot architect is the architect who walks the earth. It is materialism applied to ecology, not just another utopia. » Patrick Bouchain
How to do it? Where to start? With over a thousand drawings and sketches, this book describes alternative, clever, and economical solutions. Materials, shapes, sanitation systems and access to energy and drinking water: the techniques presented are easy to implement.
and within everyone's reach.
This veritable self-construction manual is the result of extensive observational work carried out in Latin America starting in the 1970s. Developed through contact with diverse populations facing poverty, material shortages, or guided by ecological awareness, it nevertheless asserts itself as an essential tool of our modernity.
This is an invitation to do it yourself, to develop your creative abilities, with a rediscovered joy in simple gestures. Because beyond the satisfaction it provides, self-construction opens up to more meaning, sharing, respect for resources and, undeniably, more freedom.
" Making do with what we have, that is, using this world and not another. There is a need to put our feet back on the ground. The barefoot architect is the architect who walks the earth. It is materialism applied to ecology, not just another utopia. » Patrick Bouchain