Cover art for The Barefoot Architect
Published
Shelter, December 2023
ISBN
9780936070421
Format
Softcover, 704 pages
Dimensions
21.5cm × 13.9cm × 4.5cm

The Barefoot Architect A Handbook for Green Building

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The Barefoot Architect is a book dedicated to helping economically-challenged tropical builders learn how to provide shelter, clean water, electrical energy, and sanitation by using indigenous, low-cost, sustainable building materials.

The Barefoot Architect is author Johan van Lengen's gift to the under-priveleged, ill-housed of the tropical world. As a former UN worker and successful architect, van Lengen saw the need for a book explaining in simple language, well-illustrated with lucid graphics, the process of building housing and providing a healthful environment. The theme of the book is that it is always best to search for the simplest solution with what one has on hand.

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