ADOBE HOUSES FOR TODAY features 12 plans for compact,
beautifully-proportioned adobe homes in modern and traditional
styles. Yet the book offers much more. The richly-illustrated text
shows how the basic houses, designed for today's smaller families,
can be as flexible as a set of building blocks. Intriguing drawings
demonstrate how readers can expand and adapt the plans to fit their
own budgets, family sizes, style preferences, and building
sites.After a brief look at adobe's rich history, ADOBE HOUSES FOR
TODAY surveys adobe's advantages as a building material. Next,
readers take an eye-opening tour through the facts and fantasies of
energy conservation. Then, the heart of the book illustrates the
basic and expanded versions of the plans, using them as examples of
design techniques that increase livability and control costs in any
house. The book also explains site requirements, adobe
construction, and estimating basics with an adobe house that
"assembles itself". ADOBE HOUSES FOR TODAY and its associated
construction drawings are valuable, enjoyable tools not only for
those buying, building, or remodeling a house, but also for
contractors, drafters, drafting teachers, and real estate
professionals.Award-winning author LAURA SANCHEZ previously ran a
drafting business that specialized in adobe houses. She called it
quits sometime after the 250th set of plans, but maintains an
abiding interest in designing the very best, most cost-effective
houses possible. ALEX SANCHEZ, who grew up building houses, has
taught courses in adobe construction and solar energy. He founded
and currently heads the renowned computer-aided drafting program at
the University of New Mexico-Valencia Campus. Theauthors' previous
books and CDs concern architectural computer graphics.
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