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books:

8 reviews
Athena Swentzell Steen, Bill Steen

Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2001

Straw-Bale Wannabe's Delight
To be frank, the chance that I'll actually build and live in a straw-bale house is very slim. For those of us who like to look -- and figure we can pick up a few enviro-friendly ideas along the way -- this is the perfect book on straw-bale. The color photos are very high quality, detailed, and appealing. "Recipes" for green-friendly plaster and paint are a fun feature. And practical ...

The Straw Bale House (A Real Goods Independent Living Book)

18 reviews
Athena Swentzell Steen, Bill Steen, ...

Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1994

This is a great place to start.
For someone who knew nothing about straw bale construction this book was not only informative, but also inspiring. The Straw Bale House contains a lot of good information about the specifics of straw bale construction. I found that because it covered information about straw bale construction from start to finish it couldn't go into as much detail about any one aspect as much as I would have ...

Small Strawbale

10 reviews
Bill Steen, Athena Steen, ...

Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2005

Kudos to The Steens
We live in a Strawbale home and have taken classes from the Steens at their home/workshop in Canelo, Arizona. This book is a very attractive and well put-together and very accurately describes many of the beautiful homes and buildings that we saw in Canelo, and that we have seen since we started building our own. Even if you don't ever plan on building anything, this book shows many, many ...

Built By Hand

10 reviews
Eiko Komatsu, Athena Steen, ...

Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2003

Photo Collection of Vernacular Buildings
For a number of years, Yoshio and Eiko Komatsu have been travelling the world taking high quality photographs of traditionally built homes. At first view, many of the photographs while though pleasant are not especially remarkable. However, what makes these many photos special is that they are combined together to tell a story about houses are traditionally built around the world. The ...