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New heaters in the world – a summer update!
This summer has been an exciting time to deepen our craft in masonry heater building. Here, Jerry Frisch of Lopez Quarries and I are standing in front of a heater that I assisted him on in a new house on the Puget Sound in the state of Washington. It is a basic Finnish contraflow design [...]
Summer is a time of action!
We are busily traveling to workshops and building projects as well as tending to our own productive spaces and garden at home. We are excited to document the masonry heaters and wood-fired ovens that we will be building over the next couple of months. Here are some updates we thought you might be interested in: [...]
Mark Twain on European Masonry Stoves
“Take the German stove, for instance – where can you find it outside of German countries? I am sure I have never seen it where German was not the language of the region. Yet it is by long odds the best stove and the most convenient and economical that has yet been invented. To the [...]
Bioconstruyendo: Argentinian Natural Building Festival
We are really excited about this video. It documents the events leading up to and during the natural building festival: Bioconstruyendo 2010 in El Bolson, Patagonia, Argentina. Both Eva and Max were lead instructors for the event which was extremely successful. So many great things were accomplished and so much fun was had! Visit Bioconstruyendo’s [...]
Our Vision: Towards a Craft School
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Firespeaking wins two awards at this year’s Masonry Heater Association annual gathering!
We won 1st place in the masonry heater design/build contest with the heater that we recently built in Patagonia, Argentina and 3rd place with the oven that we built in Berkeley, California. We will link to the contest results on the Masonry Heater Association page when they have published them. This is the second year [...]
Adobe Oven in Golondrinas, Argentina
This is a fun video of Eva building an adobe oven along with friend and collaborator Demian Iusso of Manos en El Barro Natural Building in Patagonia, Argentina. Activate and enjoy! Other Media Links…. Latest News: Videos: Articles & Essays: Front Page Archive:
Adobe Pump House
This adobe pump house was built to reduce the sound coming from a generator at Spirit Pine Sanctuary. Betty Seaman made the bricks and together with her apprentice, Natalie Spears, they built this structure in December of 2009. Max led the construction of the roof which included milled lumber and cement- “ceramic” roof tiles.
Five Oaks Farm Oven
Five Oaks Farm is a small family farm located on the Henry Wilhelm Estate that was built in 1865 and is a historic landmark. The farm is located just off the Oregon Trail and was originally 160 acres with a house, chicken coop, sheep barn, stable, and black smith. The original outhouse is still hidden [...]
Masonry Heater in the Rio Azul
This is the masonry heater that we built in the central community building of the Rio Azul community outside of El Bolson, Patagonia, Argentina in March of 2010. This heater can act as an open fireplace to provide the magic of fire and cut the chill in the late Spring or early Fall… but it [...]
