Building with Vision: Optimizing and Finding Alternatives to Wood

Title: Building with Vision: Optimizing and Finding Alternatives to Wood Author: Daniel Imhoff ISBN: 0970950004 Publisher: Watershed Media Published: 2001 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good Architecture & Design 1630691 Publisher Description: Part green building primer, part architectural photo essay, this is an essential resource for professionals and homeowners interested in the leading edge of environmental building. Imhoff traveled extensively to document and photograph beautiful and novel alternatives to wood intensive-building. Building with Vision is the first book to link residential building with forest impacts. Nearly 1.5 million new houses are built in the United States each year, 90 percent framed with wood, and the average house consuming an acre's worth of trees. But as Building with Vision shows, from framing and siding to new building s