Shows examples of adobe and rammed earth buildings, explains how to fire earth structures and their glazes, and discusses block making, foundations, walls, domes, and interior designs

Ceramic Houses: How to Build Your Own

Arts & Photography

Khalili, Nader

Architecture

Harpercollins

For more than eight centuries, Persian mystic poet and Sufi master Jalaloddin Mohammed Balkhi Rumi—commonly referred to simply as Rumi—has enchanted and enthralled readers from every faith and background with his universal themes of love, friendship, and spirituality, which he seamlessly wove into evanescent poetry. Translated by renowned Rumi expert Nader Khalili, over 120 poems—including twenty-one previously unpublished—have been carefully collected and curated in this beautifully illustrated edition. The verses herein perfectly express the spiritual quest and desire for a deeper understanding of not only ourselves, but also of our collective oneness as humankind.

The Spiritual Poems of Rumi

Self-Help

Rûmî

Personal Transformation

Wellfleet Press

Racing Alone by Nader Khalili "Is it really sane to follow one's ideals and dreams and race alone in today's world? 
 Is it really reasonable to insist on holding to one's visions against all odds, and after many trying years?" 
 The newly published year 2,000 edition of this acclaimed classic chronicles how to sustain a quarter century of quest and inspiration through the arts, architecture, and personal transformation. Published by Cal-Earth Press in beautiful leather-tooled hardback with photographs from the author's original journey.

Racing Alone

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Burning Gate Pr

How to build, step by step, an adobe and ceramic architecture that is affordable and self-help. How to build arches, vaults, domes, and utilize the natural energy of wind, sun-and-shade to help save forests and create a sustainable architecture. How to fire and glaze an entire building after it is constructed from clay-earth on site. A NEW UPDATE CHAPTER introducing the Superadobe technology, building with almost any on-site soil using sandbags and barbed wire.

Ceramic Houses and Earth Architecture: How to Build Your Own

Sidewalks On the Moon

Cal-Earth Pr

Khalili's classic, authoritative manual describes how to build arches, domes, and vaults with earth, as well as techniques to fire and glaze earth buildings to transform them into ceramic houses. This newly revised edition also provides insight into the latest response by building officials to Superadobe or earthbag technology (structures of sandbags and barbed wire), a patented system that is free for the owner-builder and licensed for commercial use. Nader Khalili's ideas on ceramic houses and earth architecture have been published by NASA and utilized by the United Nations, and have passed building and safety tests in California. This new edition is now in its fifth printing.

Cal-Earth Press

With the moon as a metaphor, Khalili takes us from the poetic moon of the ghettos of his childhood to the scientific moon of his presentations to NASA for lunar base construction using on-site earth and ceramics. He chronicles his own transformation renouncing his successful architecture practice and voyaging into the desert, ultimately firing and glazing the first Ceramic Houses. Inspired by the mystic poetry of Rumi, and the unity of the universal elements of earth, water, air, and fire, with his technical background he presents his proposals for earth and ceramics lunar bases to NASA.

Sidewalks on the Moon: The Journey of a Mystic Architect Through Tradition, Technology, and Transformation

Emergency Sandbag Shelter is a must-have manual for every home, as an emergency guide. Now for the first time this book is made available to people around the world by its inventor, award-winning architect Nader Khalili (1932-2008), whose specialty was skyscrapers and who dedicated his life to teaching others how to build shelter for humanity. This book, with over 700 photos and illustrations, shows how to use sandbags and barbed wire, the materials of war, for peaceful purposes as the new invention known as Superadobe or earth-bag, which can shelter millions of people around the globe as a temporary as well as permanent housing solution. This affordable, self-help, sustainable, and disaster resistant structural system is a spin off from Khalili's presentation to NASA for habitat on the moon and Mars, which successfully passed rigorous tests for strict California earthquake building codes. This book along with a small library of films and kits can guide anyone to learn and teach how to build a home or community.

Emergency Sandbag Shelter and Eco-Village: Manual-How to Build Your Own with Superadobe/Earthbags

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

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Ceramic Houses: How to Build Your Own

Ceramic Houses: How to Build Your Own

The Spiritual Poems of Rumi

Racing Alone

Ceramic Houses and Earth Architecture: How to Build Your Own

Sidewalks On the Moon

Racing Alone

Ceramic Houses and Earth Architecture: How to Build Your Own

Sidewalks on the Moon: The Journey of a Mystic Architect Through Tradition, Technology, and Transformation

Emergency Sandbag Shelter and Eco-Village: Manual-How to Build Your Own with Superadobe/Earthbags