Collect Adobe Houses For Today: Flexible Plans For Your Adobe Home Documented By Laura Sanchez Issued As Textbook

Adobe Houses for Today first appeared, interest in energy efficiency has exploded, Showing the pathway to smaller, solar tempered, easytoheat homes using adobe, one of the world's most energy efficient building materials, makes this book about adobe houses not only for today, but also for tomorrow.
The book featuresplans for compact, beautifully proportioned adobe homes in modern and traditional styles, The richly illustrated text shows how the basic houses, designed for today's smaller families, can be expanded and adapted to fit readers' own budgets, family sizes, style preferences, and building sites.
After a brief look at adobe's history, Adobe Houses for Today surveys adobe's advantages as a building material, illustrates adobe construction, and gives an eyeopening tour through the facts and fantasies of energy conservation.
The heart of the book details the plans, using them as examples of design techniques that increase livability and control costs in any house, The book and its minimalcost construction drawings are valuable, enjoyable tools for those buying, building, or remodeling a house, With this new edition, which

includes an additional chapter with stories from people who have built the houses, construction drawings are now available for some of the expanded versions.
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