Choosing Sustainability

Barefoot Architect FROM THE JUNGLES OF BRAZIL –A GREEN BUILDING MANUAL FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

This book is for people who dream of building a simple home. It is also for those in the building trades: carpenters, masons, plumbers, and artisans, as well as for urban planners, rural technicians, and small community designers.

Johan van Lengen wrote and illustrated the Manual of the Barefoot Architect in Spanish in 1982, while in Mexico. The government bought 40,000 copies and placed one in every library in the country. The book went on to sell over 200,000 copies in Latin America. This is the first English Translation

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