The Earth-Sheltered House: An Architect’s Sketchbook


Amazon.com Review
The striking common sense of the author’s perspective on design and the building process is based on millennia of use of earth-sheltered homes by animals and humans, using the earth to warm in winter and cool in summer. A cartoon on the book jacket summarizes Wells’s perspective. One panel is called “20th Century,” and has four steps of traditional building: love nature, kill it, build building, plant grass. The second panel, called “21st Century,” says: love n… More >>

The Earth-Sheltered House: An Architect’s Sketchbook

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