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Good (Encouraging) Stuff (Part 2)

Really loving this work of beauty and insight here:

Good (Encouraging) Stuff (Part 2)

I read a wonderful and frustrating book written by an Egyptian architect. He did tons of research on Ancient Egyptian homes and buildings, and came to the conclusion that the mud brick used by his ancestors is an ideal material for homes in Egypt. He also concluded that their use of small clerestory windows, and wind scoops, would indeed keep homes and other buildings more than tolerably cool. The half- and full-sized models he built bore out all of this. He’d even found ancient homes surviv…

Good (Encouraging) Stuff (Part 2)

I have a friend who was born and raised in a west African country. He earned his PhD from a university in Texas and settled near Austin. He built a small strawbale building on his property and his family back in his country of origin were surprised that he would choose to build with straw (a good insulator against the crazy heat we have here) rather than choose conventional industrialized U.S.ian methods and materials. Yep. I am reminded of a Shelley poem here.2 Acceptance of or opposition to…

Good (Encouraging) Stuff (Part 2)

Hassan Fathy is indeed the gentleman, and I’d forgot he’d built an entire beautiful but unwanted village for them. I read that book a long time ago. Yeah, the residents of Gurna/Gourna didn’t wanna live in old fashioned mud brick homes, nor did they want to give up tomb robbing [termed “trading in archaeological finds” on the wiki page]