Description: Solar Adobe by Albert Narath How a centuries-old architectural tradition reemerged as a potential solution to the political and environmental crises of the 1970s Against the backdrop of a global energy crisis, a widespread movement embracing the use of raw earth materials for building construction emerged in the 1970s. Solar Adobe examines this new wave of architectural experimentation taking place in the United States, detailing how an ancient tradition became a point of convergence for issues of environmentalism, architecture, technology, and Indigenous resistance. Utilized for centuries by the Pueblo people of the American Southwest and by Spanish colonialists, adobe construction found renewed interest as various groups contended with the troubled legacies of modern architecture and an increasingly urgent need for sustainable design practices. In this period of critical experimentation, design networks that included architects, historians, counterculture communities, government weapons labs, and Indigenous activists all looked to adobe as a means to address pressing environmental and political issues. Albert Narath charts the unique capacities of adobe construction across a wide range of contexts, consistently troubling simple distinctions between traditional and modern technologies, high design and vernacular architecture. Drawing insightful parallels between architecture, environmentalism, and movements for Indigenous sovereignty, Solar Adobe stresses the importance of considering the history of the built environment in conjunction with architectures larger impact on the natural world. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Albert Narath is associate professor of the history of the built environment at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Review "Solar Adobe helps us see that one of the projects of architectural modernism was to delegitimate Indigenous and customary practices in favor of a range of purported universal norms--it helps us recognize, in other words, that the seeming innovations of architecture in the twentieth century were also oppressions. As we collectively turn to these practices and materials again, Albert Naraths narrative is both instructive and inspirational."--Daniel A. Barber, author of Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning "When the Pueblo ancestors from Chaco, Mesa Verde, and Bandelier moved to the lowlands, a new technology--called adobe--emerged. In Solar Adobe, Albert Narath brings forth a forgotten era when modernization was trumped by a few visionaries who chose to look backwards toward the future. They gave evidence that this ancestral technology is equal to high design and, perhaps, even more critical in a world now reeling from climate change and warming."--Theodore (Ted) Jojola, director, Indigenous Design + Planning Institute, The University of New Mexico "Solar Adobe is a timely book about the adaptation of adobe, Indigenous mud-brick construction, into a thermally efficient housing alternative in the American Southwest during the 1970s energy crisis--an underexamined episode in vernacular architectural history."--CHOICE "[Solar Adobe] would be a fine addition to any architectural library."--Natural Building "Solar Adobe will appeal to those curious to understand an underappreciated period in the history of architecture and to consider perhaps familiar themes of sustainability from a new perspective."--Architectural Record Details ISBN1517914078 Author Albert Narath Publisher University of Minnesota Press Format Paperback AU Release Date 2024-06-11 Pages 296 Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781517914073 Imprint University of Minnesota Press Subtitle Energy, Ecology, and Earthen Architecture Place of Publication Minnesota Country of Publication United States Alternative 9781517914066 Illustrations 56 black and white illustrations Audience General DEWEY 720.47 Publication Date 2024-03-05 US Release Date 2024-03-05 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161854981;
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