HOUSE GODS

Our buildings are making us sick Our homes offices factories and dormitories are in some sense fresh parasites on the sacred Earth Nahasdzáán In search of a better way author Jim Kristofic journeys across the Southwest to apprentice with architects and builders who know how to make buildings that will take care of us This is where he meets the House Gods who are building to the sun so that we can live on Earth Forever In House Gods Kristofic pursues the techniques of sustainable building and the philosophies of its practitioners What emerges is a strange and haunting quest through adobe mud and mayhem encounters with shamans and stray dogs solar panels tragedy and true believers It is a story about doing something meaningful and about the kinds of things that grow out of deep pain One of these things is compassion from which may come solace We build our buildings we make our lives we are the House Gods