Title & Author:

Building with Mud / [presented by] Paul Oliver.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1982.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (26 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Paul Oliver -- Cob House, Devon, England -- Prairie Sod House, West Kansas, USA -- Kuria Dwellings, West Kenya -- Fra-Fra Compound, North Ghana -- Fra-Fra Compound, North Ghana. Interior -- House In Maharastra State, India -- Moulding Balls Of Laterite For Building, Near Kumasi, Ghana -- Swish (Laterite) Houses, Ayiga Village, Ghana -- Mud City Of Kano, Nigeria -- Borrow Pit & Adjacent Houses, Kano, Nigeria -- Plastering A Wall With Kar-Gel, Iran -- Souk, Isfahan, Iran -- Souk, Isfahan, Iran. Domes From Above -- Mud-Plastered Adobe Houses, Taxco, Mexico -- Spanish Mission Church Of San Estévan (Rear) & Indian Pueblos, Acoma, New Mexico -- Multi-Storey Pueblo & Bread Oven (Foreground), Taos, New Mexico -- Manufacturing Adobe Blocks, Near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Drying Blocks In Background -- Modern Adobe House Rendered With Mud Plaster. Rio Grande Valley -- Cinva Ram: Intermediate Technology For Making Adobe Blocks -- Earthquake Damage To Adobe House, Van Caldiran, East Turkey -- Timber Bracing For New Adobe Houses, Guatemala -- Experimental House Of Earth Bricks Stabilized With Sump Oil, Haj Youssif, Sudan -- Adobe Covered Mobile Home, Near Tesuque, Mexico.

Summary:

Paul Oliver is an architect. He was teaching for a number of years at the Architectural Association in London (in charge of art and history before heading the Graduate School), and then at Dartington College of Art (as Head of the Department of Art and Design) before taking up his present post as Associate Head of the Department of Architecture at Oxford Polytechnic. Here he also leads a research project with Ian Davis on post-disaster housing in earthquake-prone areas in Turkey, together with the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. He is author of a number of books on shelter: "Shelter In Society", "Shelter In Africa" and "Sign & Symbol". He has also designed a number of exhibitions for the UK Arts Council: "African shelter", "English Cottages & Small Farmhouses" and "The Village Green". Paul Oliver is particularly interested in simple techniques and the rational use of natural materials. Having spent much time travelling in Africa, the Middle East, America and other parts of the world, he has come to respect the work of those who build with available resources. Earth is one of the oldest and cheapest of building materials, and it has a continuing future once its vulnerability to earthquakes shock, seismic tremor, erosion, salts and chemicals can be overcome. In his talk, he discusses the problems and current solutions.

Subject:

Earth construction.
Architectural design.
Design architectural.

Added entries:

Oliver, Paul, 1927-2017, narrator.