The Hand-sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob

Chelsea Green Publishing Co

The Hand-Sculpted HouseA Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage\nAuthor(s): Ianto Evans, Michael G. Smith, Linda Smiley, Deanne Bednar\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co, United States\nImprint: Chelsea Green Publishing Co\nISBN-13: 9781890132347, 978-1890132347\nSynopsis\n\""The Hand-Sculpted House inspired me to learn and do more and transformed how I saw homes and building in general.\""Mother Earth News\n\n\""If you follow it word for word you will build yourself a house no matter who you are.\""Builder Paul Dillon, quoted in The Irish Times\n\nAre you ready for the Cob Cottage?\n\nThis is a building method so old and so simple that it has been all but forgotten in the rush to synthetics. A cob cottage, 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.\n\nThe authors build a house the way others create a natural garden. They use the.