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Paperback – 240 pages
8 Inches × 9 Inches (w × h)

Weight: 585 Grams
BISAC: HOUSE & HOME / Design & Construction
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 9780865714755
Pub. Date: 2003-02-23

About the Author

Rob Roy

Author/editor Rob Roy has been building, researching and teaching about cordwood masonry for 25 years and, with his wife, started Earthwood Building School in 1981. He has written ten books on alternative building, presented four videos - including two about cordwood masonry - and has taught cordwood masonry all over the world.

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Cordwood Building

The State of the Art

by Rob Roy



Cordwood masonry is an ancient building technique whereby walls are constructed from "log ends" laid transversely in the wall. It is easy, economical, esthetically striking, energy-efficient, and environmentally-sound.

Cordwood Building collects the wisdom of over 25 of the world's best practitioners, detailing the long history of the method, and demonstrating how to build a cordwood home using the latest and most up-to-date techniques, with a special focus on building code issues.

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