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Bamboo + Thatch house [video with subtitles]

by Katy Purviance on 03/05/10 @ 01:40:35 pm
Categories: Green Design, Videos, I love this building, Vernacular | 195 words | 148 views

Let us bow our heads and give thanks to In the Name of Good Architecture…

Thank you, Facebook Profile “In the Name of Good Architecture,” for gracing my life daily with awesome examples of vernacular architecture. You are more highly regarded in my NewsFeed than all of those stupid FarmVille requests that I delete. Amen.

Here’s the latest: a video of three non-professionals building a bamboo and thatch house in like a day. “Non-professional” is my new favorite hyphenated word because it implies a lack of student loan debt. Which is sexy. And smart. A kind of smart that they don’t teach you in school. But I digress.

Here’s the video!

I know, you want more videos of bambook structures. Me too. Here you go:

Time-lapse photography makes it awesomer:

A class builds a bamboo + clay house:

Time-lapse construction of a bamboo plantation:

A living bamboo house in Hawaii, fun facts on the superiority of bamboo, and pre-fab bamboo houses:

People in Ghana building a bamboo dome:

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places where you could probably learn more about designing and building in just a few days than I did after a year of grad school

YesterMorrow [Vermont]
The Solar Living Institute [California]
Cal Earth Institute [California]
Arcosanti [Arizona]
The Canelo Project [Arizona]
The Shelter Institute [Maine]
Cob Cottage Company [Oregon]
Real Architecture Workshop [South Dakota]
Vertical Clay [California]
Earth Hands and Houses [Poland]
Earthen Hand [Oregon]
Earthwood Building School [New York]
VERB [everywhere]

Know of some others I can add here? Let me know. Have you already visited some of these places...or planning on it? Let me know and I will feature your story and your photos here!

I am starting a new kind of architecture school. Unlike most architecture schools, you wouldn't have to submit GRE scores or good grades or letters of recommendation. You wouldn't have to put the rest of your life on hold for 3 to 5 years. You wouldn't have to accrue tens of thousands of dollars in debt. At my architecture school, anyone could come for a few weeks and learn how to build a house with their own two hands. My teachers would take skills and concepts from some of these other workshops I've listed above... except classes would be held year-round to make it easy to fit into your schedule. I would have a number of different campuses around the country that would teach building designs appropriate to the local climate. And I need your help. Can you donate land for a campus? Can you dotate books for a library? Can you teach a workshop? Can you provide start-up capital? Let me know.

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