the world ..... I want already exists! Instant Calmer Walks I do here in Cape Town, quai always end up in the library, alternating the purchase of older classics (I buy at a great price used), with more books modern, all in original language (in this case English). But the other day I bought a book that was the English translation of a book originally published in English by Johan van Lengen, a Dutchman who studied architecture in Canada and the United States and that when he worked in San Francisco, influenced the first initiatives in the environment back in the '70s, he moved to Latin America dedicated to improving people's homes with less money. From Mexico, where he published and illustrated the book that I bought now, ended up in Brazil where he founded a school, the TIBA
', which promotes the harmonious development between man and the environment.
The Barefoot Architect, the architect barefoot ( arquitecto Descalzo in English), is a handbook that puts in extraordinary conditions anyone to build a simple house in harmony with the 'environment. I'm already thinking that when you purchase our agricultural land to become self-sufficient (Hopefully this month !!!), is the next step is saving for a house made of mud brick (adobe in English), as the houses that were built traditionally on the Peruvian coast, a house to design and build ourselves under the leadership of this excellent manual. It will be our house, a house simple and practical, low-impact and high happiness of life. Sometimes we just want to dream but just as we may want to gradually realize their dreams. And as Victor mine, making my real imaginary flight and pulls me down when his foot became lighter balloon in which I am attacked and I'm flying away somewhere ..... but I would never fly away from him. And I guess now when I come back, the two of us to read this book in the evening, with winter and summer is becoming the first open windows at night ...... and if I said that this book was a gift for him, he who knows me well, he replied:-as not, a gift for me thinking you .....-
Another project is the trip to Brazil, to visit Teresa and then climb up to Rio de Janeiro to make one of the TIBA
courses, dealing with issues such as agroforesteria, bio-architecture, green roofs, mud buildings, waste treatment and wastewater from human activities, permaculture.
And here in Below, a panorama of photos to better illustrate the influences that caused me to begin to browse:
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| traditional cuisine of the field, played on a small scale for these casinos for children, in northern Peru |
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| mud house in the north of Peru |
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| a house the headquarters of the Park Limpopo in Mozambique: wedged between two rows of stone walls, tree trunks |
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| a traditional house in South Africa Vhenda |
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| another typical building of the North of Peru, made with mud bricks |
