The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage: The Real Goods Solar Living Book by Ianto Evans, Michael G. Smith, Linda Smiley and Deanne Bednar exhibits how one can build a house the best way others create a pure garden. They use the oldest, most out there materials imaginable--earth, clay, sand, straw, and water--and mix them to redefine the future (and past) of building.
Cob (the phrase comes from an...
