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House Gods: Sustainable Buildings and Renegade Builders

House Gods: Sustainable Buildings and Renegade Builders

Kristofic, Jim

Hardcover

Environmental StudiesGeneral ArchitectureSustainable Living

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ISBN10: 0826363652
ISBN13: 9780826363657
Publisher: Unm Press
Published: Aug 1 2022
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.58
Language: English
Our buildings are making us sick. Our homes, offices, factories, and dormitories are, in some sense, fresh parasites on the sacred Earth, Nahasdzáán. In search of a better way, author Jim Kristofic journeys across the Southwest to apprentice with architects and builders who know how to make buildings that will take care of us. This is where he meets the House Gods who are building to the sun so that we can live on Earth. Forever.

In House Gods, Kristofic pursues the techniques of sustainable building and the philosophies of its practitioners. What emerges is a strange and haunting quest through adobe mud and mayhem, encounters with shamans and stray dogs, solar panels, tragedy, and true believers. It is a story about doing something meaningful, and about the kinds of things that grow out of deep pain. One of these things is compassion--from which may come solace. We build our buildings, we make our lives--we are the House Gods.

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