{"product_id":"the-craft-of-log-building","title":"The Craft of Log Building by Hermann Phleps","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Hermann Phleps; translated and adapted from Roger MacGregor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLee Valley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"First and foremost, this book is intended to foster a truly craftsmanlike attitude toward wood, and to help professional and layman alike better appreciate the exquisite beauty inherent in a pure form of architecture so appropriate to the essential nature of wood.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThus it is that Hermann Phleps both sets the tone and suggests the reach of this book. From the outset, an essential theme developed by the author is that before aspiring to mastery of building or designing in solid timber, an individual must first acquire a proper reverence and feel for the material itself. Only then, Phleps proposed, is the prospective builder or designer ready to begin the process of schooling first the ye, then the hand, in the art and craft of building with logs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccordingly, \u003cem\u003eThe Craft of Log Building\u003c\/em\u003e begins with a groundwork of sections on the physical makeup and properties of wood, tree species, and the many aspects of proper felling and seasoning. Following logically on this basis are detailed chapters on foundations and sills, log walls, cornerwork and partition wall joinery (including intricate notching techniques), roof framing, and so on right up the ridge pole. Every facet of log construction is illustrated by both photographic material and exceptional drawings by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFlavouring the text throughout are the author's pointers and admonitions as to why a particular joinery technique is exemplary whereas another is not, and why certain design lines are desirable on log-built structures, while others are ill-advised. Overlying all is Hermann Phleps's passionate love for wood and his infectious delight in the warmth, charm and dynamic expressiveness of log structures built, as he insists, \"properly\" and in \"craftsmanlike\" fashion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in Karlsruhe, Germany as \u003cem\u003eDer Blockbau\u003c\/em\u003e in 1942, this book has since gained recognition as a definitive work on the ancient European tradition of horizontal log construction. Long out of print and now nearly impossible to obtain in the original, this first English edition opens the classic to the far broader readership warranted by its breadth of vision and exhaustive coverage of the subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780969101918\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lee Valley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111165870390,"sku":"","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0745\/2301\/7526\/files\/20230928_152234.jpg?v=1695950715","url":"https:\/\/www.summerbeambooks.com\/products\/the-craft-of-log-building","provider":"Summer Beam Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}