Living with the desert: working buildings of the Iranian plateau

£30.00

Card cover, 120pp., profusely illustrated with b/w photographs, drawings and diagrams.

For centuries man has adapted his way of life to the harsh conditions of the Iranian Plateau by the use of simple technology. This book examines this process in detail, studying not the grand religious and military structures, but those of ordinary people, and how such devices as the wind catcher, the dome, the ice-hose, and wind and water mills 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, something which western approaches have tended to ignore until recently.

This book will be of importance to architects and to all concerned with the environment and the use of low energy techniques.

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