| PAGE | ||
| INTRODUCTION | [11] | |
| [VI] | Pisé in Moulds | |
| [VIII] | Cob and Chalk | |
| [IX] | A Postscript | |
| [X] | Pliny on Pisé de Terre | |
| GENERAL SURVEY | [26] | |
| [I] | ||
| COB | [33] | |
| [§ I.] | General | |
| [§ II.] | Method of Building | |
| [§ III.] | Conclusion | |
| [II] | ||
| PISÉ DE TERRE | [57] | |
| [§ I.] | General | |
| [§ II.] | Method of Building | |
| [§ III.] | The Theory and Science of Pisé | |
| [§ IV.] | Indian and Colonial Practice | |
| [III] | ||
| CHALK | [107] | |
| [§I.] | General | |
| [IV] | ||
| UNBURNED CLAY AND EARTH BRICKS | [121] | |
| [APPENDIX] | [127] | |
| [I] | Whitewash | |
| [II] | The Importance Of Using Local Materials | |
| [III] | Extract From a Letter to the Editor of Country Life | |
| [IV] | Pisé Tests | |
| [INDEX] | [139] | |
[ILLUSTRATIONS]
Some illustrations have been moved to bring them nearer the related text. The bracketed page number shows their original location.
| COB HOUSE BUILT BY MR. ERNEST GIMSON, NEAR BUDLEIGH SALTERTON, DEVON | [ Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE | |
PISÉ WAGGON-HOUSE AT NEWLANDSCORNER | [18] |
THE NEWLANDS WAGGON-HOUSE(INTERIOR) | [18] |
THE BEGINNING OF A PISÉFRUIT-HOUSE | [19] |
THE FRUIT-HOUSE COMPLETED WITH ROOF OF PEATBLOCKS ON ROUGH BOARDING | [19] |
MODEL OF A PISÉ DE TERRE HOUSE TO BE BUILT INTHREE SUCCESSIVE STAGES | [22] |
WAYSIDE STATION OF PISÉ AT SIMONDIUM, SOUTHAFRICA, DESIGNED BY MR. HERBERT BAKER | [23] |
FRONT AND BACK ELEVATIONS OF COTTAGE DESIGNEDBY SIR EDWIN LUTYENS AND MR. ALBAN SCOTT | [28] |
PLAN OF COTTAGE DESIGNED BY SIR EDWIN LUTYENSAND MR. ALBAN SCOTT | [29] |
ANOTHER VIEW OF THE COB HOUSE BUILT BY MR.ERNEST GIMSON, NEAR BUDLEIGH SALTERTON, DEVON | [34] |
A FINE SPECIMEN OF A DEVONSHIRE COBHOUSE | [35] |
A DEVONSHIRE COB FARMHOUSE, PROBABLY BETWEEN200 AND 300 YEARS OLD | [36] |
A COB-BUILT VILLAGE | [37] |
A DEVONSHIRE FARM, LOCAL MATERIAL(COB) | [42] |
DEVON COUNTRY HOUSE, BUILT OF DEVONCOB | [43] |
COB HOUSE TEMP. ELIZABETH, LEWISHILL | [44] |
ANOTHER DEVONSHIRE (COB) FARMHOUSE, WEEKEBARTON | [45] |
CEILINGS OF MODELLED PLASTER FROM OLD COBHOUSES IN DEVON | [46] |
A COB GARDEN-WALL WITH THATCHEDCOPING | [47] |
PISÉ PLANT AND IMPLEMENTS | [58] |
DIAGRAM OF MARK V PISÉSHUTTERING | [88] |
MARK V SHUTTERING | [89] |
A SIMPLE MOULD FOR PISÉ BLOCKS | [90] |
BLOCK-MOULDS, LARGE AND SMALL | [90] |
SKETCH OF A PISÉ HOUSE IN COURSE OFERECTION | [91] |
THE NEWLANDS CORNER BUILDING | [92] |
THE COTTAGE FROM THESOUTH-EAST | [93] |
THE GARDEN COURT | [93] |
THE BACKYARD | [94] |
FRAMING THE ROOF | [95] |
AN INTERIOR, SHOWING FIRE-BRICK HEARTHFIRE | [95] |
DETAILS OF CHALK CONSTRUCTION ATAMESBURY | [110] |
COTTAGES AT COLDHARBOUR,AMESBURY | [111] |
THREE CHALK COTTAGES AT HURSLEYPARK | [114] |
MARSH COURT, HAMPSHIRE | [116] |
BRICK-AND-CHALK VAULTING AT THE DEANERYGARDEN, SONNING | [117] |
ONCE CORN HALL, NOW COUNCILSCHOOL | [122] |
A ROW OF CLAY-LUMP COTTAGES | [122] |
ENGINEERING WORKSHOPS | [123] |
[CONSIDERATIONS]
“If all available brickworks were to produce at their highest limit of output and with all the labour they wanted at their disposal they could only turn out 4,000,000,000 bricks in a year as against a pre-war average of 2,800,000,000.”—(See Report by Committee appointed by Ministry of Reconstruction to consider the post-war position of building.)
The first year’s programme of working-class housing alone calls for at least 6,000,000,000 bricks. That is to say, unless wall materials other than brick are freely used, we shall fall alarmingly short of what the population of Great Britain needs in bare accommodation, and all building and engineering projects whatsoever other than housing must be postponed indefinitely.