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The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage by Ianto Evans, Michael G. Smith, Linda Smiley (Paperback, 2013)

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By Ianto Evans ISBN: 9781890132347. 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.

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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.

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Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing Co
ISBN-13
9781890132347
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95189074

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Book Title
The Hand-Sculpted House: a Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage
Illustrator
Deanne Bednar
Author
Ianto Evans, Michael G. Smith, Linda Smiley
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Home Decor
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Art & Culture
Number of Pages
384 Pages

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254mm
Item Width
204mm
Item Weight
723g

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Michael G. Smith, Ianto Evans, Linda Smiley
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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5 out of 5 stars
by space-junk-trad...20 Jan, 2018
So far so good.
I'm still reading the book. It seems though, to be a well written book with a lot of pertinent information. Great use of Illustrations to picture the idea being conveyed.
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by smalwonde26 Nov, 2020
Build your own cob house!
Excellent book on all things cob. Extensive writing on the history, technicalities of building and possible problems and their solutions all wrapped in hippy back-to-the-land philosophy. If that's what you're looking for you will find it in this book.
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by nebovi-9207 Apr, 2024
Cob houses r awesome.
This book is in great condition and the reading is even better!
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by mandolinjulie08 Nov, 2006
The Hand-Sculpted House by Evans, Smiley, Smith
I purchased The Hand-Sculpted House recently and was immediately riveted by this well written book. Anyone interested in building with renewable materials would be able to absorb the information needed to take on their project. I liked that the writers were knowledgable and had obviously researched many techniques and shared them with precise detailed descriptions. The only dislikes I could mention is that I would have LOVED more colored pictures of finished projects and a few avenues of building were cut short with another book (of their writings) recommended to purchase.
5 out of 5 stars
by nitramj21 Nov, 2016
hand sculpted house
very informative and inspiring. Wish I was 30 years younger and I would attempt to put this info to action.
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