John Hardy, Master of Bamboo

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In my opinion, Bamboo shared a the top spot for the most sustainable and beautiful building material in the world.

(Sharing that with hemp bricks)

pretentious twit. you're the best and smartest guy you know huh? and everyone else and their buildings just suck? you sound like every other island burnout. boooooooo

absolutely well said,😊❤😊 all buildings have purpose an a soul an motivate the human experience to a higher purpose an responsibility to nature ppl an the human experience an journey......beautiful inspiring so much thought provoking artistry. An labor of love....so refreshing .....well said....shame on the world status quo regarding architecture an so much more....u are a inspiration SIR

Thank you very much. really appreciate and motivated by your story.

Bravo!

Love his creations.☺️
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He escaped Canada in 1975, lol.

I absolutely love it!!!! Thank you thank you for these words of sanity and wisdom🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

In the early 90’s I stayed on a farm in costa rica that grew giant bamboo. I learned you could make so many things! The family there was really great, I often wonder how all those people are doing.

His heart's in the right place, but he's still a BS-er. Bamboo isn't the only sustainable building material on the planet! And, trained architects did not flee his project because they were afraid of beauty and grace. How childish!
They most likely left because they were afraid the design wouldn't work. I hate that kind of double-talk bullshit. It's uneccesary & from a man this age, frankly, alarming. I quit watching at that comment.

Gonna plant some more bamboo tommorow. Bought giganticus & black timor 12 yrs ago and both only just survived, will my giganticus ever get giant? If someone knows. Did any one else see a teddybear bamboo? Or did i dream that one? 2 hurricanes here w tornado does anyone know the wind tesistance of the bamboo structures in these images of

"Escaped from Canada" off to a great start

"Architecture is beauty" I wish this wasn't an unconventional thought in architecture

Wow magnifique, l'architecture doit être belle sinon c'est de la construction. 100% daccord

Boxes are also cheap and very strong. Truth. But absolutely beautiful shapes and bamboo surely is a wonderful and underrated (by western standards) material. In Asia bamboo scaffolding is common. Surely “CAD” could incorporate this material, as well as at least some building codes.

“Ruler is the ugliest thing I ever saw”

I believe
EVERY engineer and EVERY architect should do a year in the field of before being allowed to sit and get a license

Looks good on paper doesn’t always work in da field

white guy master bamboo?LOL

More food for the Climate Change Brainwashed. Building with bamboo is a great idea, but it is not going to save humanity from itself. Hype.

wow

Beautiful!

"Escaped canada"
The ultimate truth. Our governments waste so much of our resourses. They waste the most precious resource the most!
Us. We the people. Our government should be focused on the promoting the general welfare og it's own populace. It has wasted the potential and failed to promote it's own.
Time to pay the piper. Corruption has permeated the federal government and it needs to be douched...

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Probably the most renewable and sustainable building material.

intuitive builder you are,,,so love this!!! your work is fab!

If we say the word Architect ..we think Male. Males like minimalism and square boxes. Not Zaha Hadid however,, She was an outstanding 'thinking outside of the box' woman. Her buildings are curved and flowing. In this modern world of HUGE population increases, it's idealistic to promote bamboo as the default material. What we can do...is allow and give more voice to female sensibilities . Rejoice the pretty, the colours and shapes of nature. Let the dance be one of grace and soft sweeps of energy.

Congratulations Mr. Hardy you are an artist. Beautiful designs.

You are Beautiful

John Hardy, you are more than an Architect, you are an Artist as well .. Kudos to your Creations ..And thanks for sharing

Beautiful & great message

hi! I was wondering how possible is to combine the bamboo with the straw and clay construction, I mean in the indoasia, you can build just with bamboo, the weather is more easygoing the whole year, in the western europe, the winters are harder even in the soutern, i can imagine replacing typical wood for bamboo and going with straw and clay, but so far, I havent seen both combinated, is anyone know about it?

Thank you.

The ruler is the ugliest thing ever made! Well said, Sir

Using Bamboo looks like working with clay vs iron and glass that must have exact measurements and design! Its like making adobi houses!

I have never seen so much beauty in what you have built! How fortunate to live there to see that beauty everyday. You are so blessed and talented! ❤❤❤

Why don't you shut up and show us already.

Putting people in boxes is a crime...

100% agree...

Escaped from Canada 😂😂

Outstanding!!
May all Beings follow your advice & example

😄 let's do something amazing

so basically from my understanding from this video.
Current Architectures focus far too much on efficiency and effectiveness, simplicity, than, beauty, and creativity. Modern architects focus their attention too much on Functionality at the cost of beauty even if there is enough space for beauty(but nonmodernity beauty though).

Thank you.

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Never have I seen such beauty!

He needs a hair cut.

This guy is full of it

Blah blah blah…. Me think architects bad… yeah we get it, you’re not a davinci, quit bitching so much and talk about the value of bamboo.. boooooring.

This guy is speaking the simple truth .. he is a wise man .

Less talk. More fantastic pictures of these fabulous creations.