The Ecological House

I found this wonderful book in a small bookstore that was going out of business in the early 80's when the whole book business was changing from bookstores ordering from individual publishers to ordering from giant wholesalers and this bookseller specialized in certain types of books from small publishers. I found it to be way ahead of its time as to its ideas on building environmentally sound houses and his analysis of the differing activities of each room. This brilliant rethinking of the purpose of the various rooms was notable. I was most impressed that his thinking enabled him to divide the multipurpose "living room" into smaller "formal, passive, and active" centers that were much more efficent. The numerous drawings it contained were most helpful in illustrating the author's very important ideas on designing for the most efficient and money saving ways to build homes, including locating the house to deal with differing climates, construction ideas that modified the extremes of weather,and original ideas on size and layout of contents of individual rooms. This book should be in the libraries of every serious "green" enthusiast. Like I said,it was WAY ahead of its time.