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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 11/11/2005, you wrote:
> "Is anyone building metal structures, either domes or cylinders or anything?
> Quonset huts are an old solution to deployable cheap long-lasting shelters
> and that is the subject I am investigating.
> What is the next step in shelter after tarps and tents??"

For an interesting perspective on how many different people in many 
different climates have solved the problem read "Shelter","Shelter II", and 
"Home Work: The Owner Built Home" by Loyd Kahn.  For a more narrow but 
equally fascinating view read "Native American Architecture" by Nabokov and 
Easton;


Don Bowen                          Awl Knotted Up

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