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DOI: 10.35483/acsa.am.111.25
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Wiigwaas: Building with Birch in the Great Lakes

Christian Nakarado

Abstract: Our exploitative models of building and design arise from misconceptions about the relationship between energy and objects. The current emphasis on efficiency, performance, and life cycle assessment are not adequate remedies for the problem. Through an analysis of Anishinaabe material harvesting techniques and building technologies, this paper contends that the lighter methods of low-carbon construction practiced in the Great Lakes region for millennia are ideal alternatives to this flawed conceptualization, b… Show more

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