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ecoBookNET.net's suggested top 10 books on Bamboo & Building
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Bamboo Style creatively shows how every room of the house can be designed, decorated or accented with sensual bamboo furniture, flooring, wall covering, ceiling material and accessories. The book showcases examples of easy and innovative bamboo decorating techniques and do-it-yourself projects. Bamboo Style inspires creativity and craft making, and includes a detailed resource section that makes it easy to connect with designers, manufacturers, artists, suppliers, and organizations.
Gale Beth Goldberg received her masters degree in architecture from MIT and her undergraduate degree in landscape architecture from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The recipient of a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts, she studied the bamboo architecture of Simon Velez and builder/artisan Marcelo Villegas in Bogotá, Columbia, in 1998. She lives in Santa Barbara, California. |
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Bambusa guadua, the tropical giant bamboo, is the most versatile, reliable architectural material of its native mountainous regions. Bamboo's delightful exterior and exotic reputation obscures its oaklike strength.
New Bamboo is a color portfolio of contemporary structures and decorative designs demonstrating the appeal of building with natural materials for the modern eye. Properly treated, bamboo is as reliable as prime-grade hardwoods, beautiful in its own right, and suitable for commercial and residential structures in any climate.
This is an anthology of bamboo construction by different experts: an agronomist, architects, a designer, and a builder, that showcases projects in Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Panama, and Colombia, where this product has been used as a traditional construction material for centuries. Also covered are France and Germany, where architects are discovering the delights of working with bamboo.
Guadua is beautiful but not so delicate that it cannot be used in commercial structures like the auditorium-size pavilion built for the Hannover Expo 2000. Here are delightful details and rugged outbuildings that show bamboo as a most natural design element. |
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This book includes designs of traditional Japanese bamboo fences, as well as diagrams illustrating the basic techniques of creating a fence including splitting bending, joining and tying bamboo. Paired with step-by-step instructions, these designs will prove the perfect starting point for those who aspire to become a professional garden designer. |
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The advantages offered by bamboo, one of the world’s most important construction materials, are being rediscovered today: not only is it considered extremely costeffective and lasting, it also has an unmistakable aesthetic appearance, whilst its internal structure is remarkably similar to that of high-tech materials.
Architect Simón Vélez, born 1959 in Columbia, recognized the benefits this material offers and put them to practical use in a large number of buildings. His most recent project, the pavilion for the ZERI Foundation at Expo 2000 in Hannover – at 40 meters in diameter and 17 meters high one of the largest bamboo structures in the world – is described in great detail. |
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The many uses of beautiful bamboo Besides feeding pandas and making a yummy addition to many Asian dishes, bamboo is also used as a building material, both functional and decorative. The dried stems are extremely sturdy and lend themselves to a multitude of uses. Shigeru Ban, for example, found a way to create lumber from laminated woven bamboo for a house he designed in Beijing. Other houses show off bamboo in more straightforward ways, lining the ceilings or floors with stems, or even forming walls. Bamboo is also used to construct furniture, lending a chair or a bed a warm, earthy feeling. This unique look book captures the many uses of bamboo in houses throughout China, Japan, and Indonesia.
The editor: Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN since 1987, she has published numerous titles on the themes of architecture, photography, design, contemporary art, interiors, and travel.
The photographer: Swiss photographer Reto Guntli, based in Zurich, regularly travels the world taking photos for international magazines. He has published numerous books and contributed to TASCHEN publications such as Inside Asia and Great Escapes Europe. |
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Of all the sustainable materials now available, none is more interesting than bamboo. Botanically classified as a grass, bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants on the earth, easy to harvest, alternately flexible or stiff (depending on the application) and extremely strong (stronger, in fact, than steel), and is in use in applications as diverse as flooring, building structures, furniture, aeronautics, and high-end racing bikes. Bamboo is a portrait of this dynamic and amazing material and a guide to its many uses across the design spectrum. Striking color illustrations convey exhaustive technical and botanical information while experts in fields such as biotechnology, wood technology, and horticulture explain technical properties such as the different varieties, their methods of propagation and habitat requirements, as well as information on the uses of bamboo in numerous design situations. A must-have volume for any designer interested in materials. |
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How-To Build with Bamboo: 30 Projects includes step-by-step illustrations on building your own bamboo items, with 30 unique projects including a plant holder, picture frame, porch swing, candle holder, privacy panel, lampshade, chest of bins, luggage rack, and much more! With a section on the history, philosophy, and environmental advantages of bamboo, plus tips on finding bamboo locally and growing your own, How-To Build with Bamboo: 30 Projects is an incredible resource on a major modern renewable resource.
Introduction: Bamboo Tips Fun and Functional Candle Lamp Picture Frame Treasure Box Wind Catcher Rain Stick Earrings Bamboo Clock Hanging Plant Holder Furniture and Accessories Lamp Shade Bamboo Stand Reading Lamp Screen Door Bed Frame Porch Swing Pullout Drawers Outside and Garden Waterspout Waterwheel Burmese Ball Fence Garden Gate Resources |
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The many uses of beautiful bamboo Besides feeding pandas and making a yummy addition to many Asian dishes, bamboo is also used as a building material, both functional and decorative. The dried stems are extremely sturdy and lend themselves to a multitude of uses. Shigeru Ban, for example, found a way to create lumber from laminated woven bamboo for a house he designed in Beijing. Other houses show off bamboo in more straightforward ways, lining the ceilings or floors with stems, or even forming walls. Bamboo is also used to construct furniture, lending a chair or a bed a warm, earthy feeling. This unique look book captures the many uses of bamboo in houses throughout China, Japan, and Indonesia.
The editor: Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN since 1987, she has published numerous titles on the themes of architecture, photography, design, contemporary art, interiors, and travel.
The photographer: Swiss photographer Reto Guntli, based in Zurich, regularly travels the world taking photos for international magazines. He has published numerous books and contributed to TASCHEN publications such as Inside Asia and Great Escapes Europe. |
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