ISBN: 9781889625027 Year Added to Catalog: 2004 Book Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 5.5 x 8.5, 328 pages Book Publisher: Cal-Earth Press Old ISBN: 1889625027 Release Date: June 21, 2002 Web Product ID: 261
"No one can prove there is a meaning to life.
I must make my own life meaningful, that is all."
—Nader Khalili
This dramatic follow-up to Racing Alone is the journey of a mystic architect through tradition, technology, and transformation. Khalili's odyssey takes him from the poverty-stricken ghettos of his childhood, dominated by the spirituality of Islam, to the wealth and power of a successful architecture practice dominated by rational engineering and mathematics.
About the Author
Nader Khalili
Nader Khalili, an Iranian-born California architect and author, is the designer and innovator of the Geltaftan Earth-and-Fire System known as "ceramic houses" as well as the Superadobe building technologies. He received his education in Iran, Turkey, and the United States, and has been a licensed architect in California since 1970. In 1975, he closed his successful practice in the United States and Iran designing high-rise buildings and journeyed by motorcycle for five years through the Iranian desert, where he worked closely with local villagers to develop his earth architecture prototypes. His impressions have been collected in his book Racing Alone. ...
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