| Living With the Desert: Working Buildings |  | Authors: Elisabeth Beazley, Michael Harverson
Publisher: Orchid Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 119
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 12.7 x 8.7 x 0.5
ISBN: 9748304647
Dewey Decimal Number: 720
EAN: 9789748304649
ASIN: 9748304647
Publication Date: July 6, 2006
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For centuries man has adapted his way of life to the harsh conditions of the Iranian Plateau by the use of simple technology. This text examines this process in detail, studying not the grand religious and military structures, but those of the ordinary people, and how such devices as the wind-catcher, the dome, the ice-house, and wind and watermills were adapted to make life comfortable under desert conditions. The authors examine the materials and the methods of building and the special technology of their use which brought people into harmony with the environment and, as a result, the book should be of interest to architects and all those concerned with the environment and the use of low energy techniques.
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