Jon Broome

Interesting as the story of one architect's journey to build his own place. By modern standards, it would not qualify as an eco-home, and seems to be quite wasteful of energy. Rather than be overly critical of this, I think it is best to say that it is very much a book of its time, and reminded me that 10 years ago the term eco-home meant practically nothing, the practice of domestic energy conservation was in its infancy, and what would be considered eco-bling today was a desirable but not essential addition to a lower-than-standard-destructive-impact architect-deigned home. Broome's house wouldn't meet modern building regs!

Broome does introduce the work of Walter Seagal, though, and it acted as a good jumping-off point into finding out more about his ideas on low-impact building.… (más)