Books on Housing

[The] $50 and Up Underground House Book

4th edition by Mike Oehler. Illustrations by Chris Royer, Mole Publishing Company/Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 1981 ISBN: 0-442-27311-8. 116 pages. How to build an underground house using a shovel, polyethylene, and a chainsaw with a milling attachment. The author recommends a no concrete concept of underground house building. Recommended by decastro@netcom.com (Richard A. De Castro), on misc.survivalism.

 

Adobe Build it Yourself

By Paul Graham McHenry, Jr. 1985, Univ. of Arizona Press, ISBN 0-8165-0984-4. Recommended by decastro@netcom.com (Richard A. De Castro), on misc.survivalism.

 

Build a Yurt: The Low-Cost Mongolian Round House

By Len Charney. 1974, Collier Books (a division of Macmillan Publishing), ISBN 0-02-079320-0. Recommended by decastro@netcom.com (Richard A. De Castro), on misc.survivalism.

 

PVC Projects For The Outdoorsman

By Tom Forbes. ISBN #1-58160-021-6 Building shelters, camping gear, and how to use plastic pipe.

 

[The] Owner Built Home

By Ken Kern, published by Charles Scribmer's Sons, New York in 1975. Cheap housing was built in India using a method of coating burlap with cement, for instance. This book presents ways to build inexpensive buildings or outbuildings.

 

[The] Rammed Earth House

By David Easton. Details constructions specifications for using earth combined with concrete to create pleasing, natural structure that are as durable as concrete. Inexpensive and extends the available concrete mix. $30 Chelsea Green Publishing Company, PO Box 428, White River Junction, VT 05001.

 

[The] Straw Bale House

By Athena and Bill Steen, David Bainbridge, and David Eisenberg. Details inexpensive construction using bales of straw as a component of the walls. Chelsea Green Publishing Company, PO Box 428, White River Junction, VT 05001.