{"product_id":"9780930829582","title":"Simone Swan: Adobe Building","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Dollens has written beautifully about one of the most passionate, committed, and innovative advocates for traditional earthen construction in our time.”—Ed Crocker. Crocker Ltd., Architectural Conservation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Swan’s life and work perfectly capture the spirit and romance of the American West. Only at the risk of its own irrelevance will the architecture profession ignore the lessons in Dollens’ book on Swan’s practical yet elegant and modern adobe solutions to housing.”—William Menking, editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Architect’s Newspaper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike an organism sitting and breathing on its site in the Chihuahuan desert, the Swan House is a building of organic beauty and hybrid cultural intelligence. Simone Swan has created an architectural and environmental project that re-examines and promotes traditional adobe building while introducing compatible forms, such as the Nubian vault and dome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwan studied with the great Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy in his Cairo studio and after his death in 1989 adopted his mission of helping house the world’s poor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimone Swan: Adobe Building\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to discuss and illustrate Swan’s architecture while also chronicling one of her annual workshops in Dollens’ first-hand account. Dollens suggests that by biologically analyzing historic adobe we may be able to hybridize its constituents as replacements for current toxic materials, creating new biomimetic, adobe-related building materials suitable for green architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDennis Dollens\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eD2A: Digital to Analog\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eDBA: Digital-Botanic Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eExodesic: Structures, Tumbleweeds, Electronics\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eEl Proyecto TumbleTruss \/ The TumbleTruss Project\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lumen Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008564510960,"sku":"9780930829582","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780930829582_p0.jpg?v=1763866595","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780930829582","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}