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Author Minke, Gernot

Title Building with bamboo / Gernot Minke ; [translation into English, Joy K. Henderson ; graphic design, David Lorente]
Published Basel : Birkhäuser, ©2012
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Description 1 online resource (160 pages) : color illustrations
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Summary Traditionally a building material of hot climate zones in Asia and Latin America, bamboo is increasingly discovered by architects of the Northern hemisphere as well. It is lightweight, highly elastic and ductile, and in addition offers qualities especially in demand in an era of limited resources, renewability and abundant availability. Architects and engineers have significantly widened the applications of bamboo in recent years and today even wide-span bridges can be built from it. Impressed with its technical and aesthetic possibilities, European, Japanese and North American architects have
Notes Title from screen, viewed
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Bamboo construction -- Pictorial works
Sustainable architecture -- Pictorial works
Bamboo -- Utilization -- Pictorial works
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Public, Commercial & Industrial.
ARCHITECTURE -- Project Management.
ARCHITECTURE -- Security Design.
Bamboo construction
Bamboo -- Utilization
Sustainable architecture
Genre/Form Pictorial works
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783034611787
3034611781
Other Titles Subtitle on cover: Design and technology of a sustainable architecture