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• Title:How much house? : Thoreau, Le Corbusier and the sustainable cabin / Urs Peter Flueckiger.
  
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• Variant Title:Thoreau, Le Corbusier and the sustainable cabin
  
• Author/Creator:Flueckiger, Urs Peter, author.
  
• Published/Created:Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser, part of Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2016]
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NA7533 .F58 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
  Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.
  Small houses.
  Sustainable architecture.
  
• Description:112 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 20 cm
  
• Summary:"The space we live in, reduced to a minimum, has been fascinating us for generations -- the writer Thoreau lived in a self-built hut in the forest from 1845-1847. In 1952, Le Corbusier built a hut at the Côte d'Azur for himself and his wife. Inspired by this, Urs Peter Flückiger, together with his students, built an ecologically and economically sustainable cabin in the Texan prairie. All three projects share the idea of minimal space and its relationship with the surrounding nature. In text, drawings, and photographs, this book analyses the three projects and shows parallels and similarities. Inspired by Tolstoy's story How Much Land Does A Man Need?, the author asks: "How much house does a man need?", thereby providing a pointed contribution to the current discussion on the requirement for housing"--Publisher website.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9783035610284 (English edition ; cl.)
  3035610282
  
• Contents:Introduction
  How much house?
  House near Walden Pond, built in 1845-1847 / Henry David Thoreau
  Le cabanon, built in 1951-1952 / Le Corbusier
  Sustainable cabin, built in 2008-2010 / Texas Tech University.