House gods : sustainable buildings and renegade builders / Jim Kristofic.
By: Kristofic, Jim [author.].
Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: xiv, 220 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780826363657.Subject(s): Kristofic, Jim, 1982- -- Travel -- Southwestern States | Sustainable buildings -- Southwestern States | Sustainable buildings -- Design and construction | Architecture -- Environmental aspects -- Southwestern States | Architecture -- Environmental aspects | Sustainable buildings | Sustainable buildings -- Design and construction | Travel | United States -- Southwestern StatesGenre/Form: Print books.Summary: "Our buildings are making us sick. Our homes, offices, factories, and dormitories are, in some sense, fresh parasites on the sacred Earth, Nahasdzáán. In search of a better way, author Jim Kristofic journeys across the Southwest to apprentice with architects and builders who know how to make buildings that will take care of us. This is where he meets the House Gods who are building to the sun so that we can live on Earth. Forever. In House Gods, Kristofic pursues the techniques of sustainable building and the philosophies of its practitioners. What emerges is a strange and haunting quest through adobe mud and mayhem, encounters with shamans and stray dogs, solar panels, tragedy, and true believers. It is a story about doing something meaningful, and about the kinds of things that grow out of deep pain. One of these things is compassion--from which may come solace. We build our buildings, we make our lives--we are the House Gods" --| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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"Our buildings are making us sick. Our homes, offices, factories, and dormitories are, in some sense, fresh parasites on the sacred Earth, Nahasdzáán. In search of a better way, author Jim Kristofic journeys across the Southwest to apprentice with architects and builders who know how to make buildings that will take care of us. This is where he meets the House Gods who are building to the sun so that we can live on Earth. Forever. In House Gods, Kristofic pursues the techniques of sustainable building and the philosophies of its practitioners. What emerges is a strange and haunting quest through adobe mud and mayhem, encounters with shamans and stray dogs, solar panels, tragedy, and true believers. It is a story about doing something meaningful, and about the kinds of things that grow out of deep pain. One of these things is compassion--from which may come solace. We build our buildings, we make our lives--we are the House Gods" --