CERAMIC HOUSES AND EARTH ARCHITECTURE By Khalili, Nader
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How to Build Your Own
Khalili's classic, authoritative manual describes how to build arches, domes, and vaults with earth, as well as techniques to fire and glaze earth buildings to transform them into ceramic houses. This newly revised edition also provides insight into the latest response by building officials to Superadobe or earthbag technology (structures of sandbags and barbed wire), a patented system that is free for the owner builder and licensed for commercial use.
Nader Khalili, an Iranian born California architect and author, is the designer and innovator of the Geltaftan Earth and Fire System known as ceramic houses as well as the Superadobe building technologies. He received his education in Iran, Turkey, and the United States, and has been a licensed architect in California since 1970. In 1975 he closed his successful practice in the United States and Iran designing high rise buildings and journeyed by motorcycle for five years through the Iranian desert, where he worked closely with local villagers to develop his earth architecture prototypes.
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- Edition: Paperback
- ISBN: 1889625019
- Format: 246 printed pages 234 x 190mm
- Publisher: Chelsea Green (USA)
