The Barefoot Architect: A Handbook for Green Building
Author:   Johan van Lengen
Publisher:   Shelter Publications Inc.,U.S.
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9780936070421


Pages:   704
Publication Date:   15 November 2007
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Johan van Lengen
Publisher:   Shelter Publications Inc.,U.S.
Imprint:   Shelter Publications Inc.,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 4.50cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9780936070421


ISBN 10:   0936070420
Pages:   704
Publication Date:   15 November 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface Introduction How to Use This Manual 1. Design 2. Humid Tropics 3. Dry Tropics 4. Temperate Zone 5. Materials 6. Construction 7. Energy 8. Water 9. Sanitation 10. Appendix Materials and Heat Measurements Mixtures Climate Zones Angles Glossary Bibliography Index

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Johan van Lengen was born in the Netherlands, studied architecture in Canada, and received his architectural degree in 1960 from the University of Oregon. In the early '70s, largely influenced by the Whole Earth Catalog, he abandoned a successful career as an architect in San Francisco to work on providing better housing for the disadvantaged in Latin America. He moved to Brazil, where he and his wife, Rose, founded TIBA (Bio-Architecture and Intuitive Technology), an institute for alternative building technology in the Mata Atlantica, the eastern coastal jungle of Brazil. At the same time, the van Lengen family started converting abandoned grasslands into tropical forest. Johan has also worked for the United Nations and a number of government agencies in Latin America. At TIBA, he continues to develop new ideas in construction technology and ways to transfer this knowledge to the self-help builders in his workshops.

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