[Cob] African Canvas-book>cob images in Africa

[Dirtcheapbuilder-Charmaine]

Maybe you mean: Spectacular Vernacular?  Cover  has a cloaked native 
man holding a  fat, jewel- hatted baby with three earth (breast shaped) 
  temples in back of him.

there are several books with african/middle eastern clay and painted 
earth buildings.

I acquired one that knocks my socks off with its beauty of hand painted 
walls and each other!! .


"African Canvas" Margaret Courtney Clarke-  very hard to find and $$  
has a black woman in a bright blue tribal dress and headwrap hand 
painting a colorful wall on cover.  Michael Smith of Cob Cottage asked 
me to find a lower cost copy of the book for him, and none existed..I 
ended up buying  the pricey one I located just to create  a better  
personal library, and for research.  I am glad I did.

SInce I am off-spring-free, when   I croak  someday, someone will 
inherit a great library!

WHich brings me to the idea of creating a  single point where resources 
can be held for all. Many original cob proponents  are aging, straw 
balers too plus other inventors,  we are all aging, and having a 
private but accessible "library" with all these great books and 
information resources would be a good legacy to  make available to the 
future builders.

I Imagine in this day and with technology, that scanning and saving a 
perfect copy of each book can be done, this way the info can flow via 
electrons to the requestor, rather than having to come and "visit" a 
physical library.  fragile books, phampletts and  other print materials 
an be saved

no Idea how to begin this proposition, open to ideas to be tossed about.

Charmaine


On Aug 19, 2007, at 12:12 PM, kelly at artktecture.ca wrote:


If you are interested in earthen building in Africa, I would recommend 
going to
Mali. The architecture there is amazing!!! I have some pics on my 
website at
www.artktecture.ca

Cheers,
Kelly


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I took a 3 week owner-builder course at Cob Cottage in
Coquille, Oregon in 2003.  I remember perusing a book
or two in the common/gathering building that contained
beautiful pictures of earthen buildings and their
interiors in Africa.  The book had a hard cover and
the images were in color.  I can't remember the title
for the life of me...I tried African Tapestries but
had no hits.  Is anyone familiar with a book of this
sort or even specific websites.  I'm considering going
to South Africa, but anywhere in Africa would be good
to look into.

And since I'm asking, is there anyone with specific
knowledge about cob building in Barbados or Belize?

Thanks!

Christina
Buffalo, NY
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