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The Craft of Log Building: A Handbook of Craftsmanship in Wood

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From the back cover; "Architect, teacher, scholar and writer Hermann Phleps was born on June 1, 1877 in Birthalm, Transylvania (now Biertan, Romania). He studied at the Technische Hochschulen in Vienna and Karlsruhe before completing his doctoral work in Dresden. For some thirty-eight years, he lectured at the Technische Hochschulen (Polytechnic) in Danzig. Renowned as one of the "Old Masters" in the field of timber building and wooden architecture, he was the author of a dozen major works and more than one hundred and fifty essays and articles on a broad array of subjects in the fields of building, architecture and design. He died in Marburg, West Germany in 1964 at the age of eighty-six."
This 328 page big book contains dozens of photos of old world artistically built log structures of all kinds, some simple, some elaborate, as well as hundreds of quality drawings of log construction from notch and window details to the entire building. Text describes everything about woods, different types of roofing materials, how to make shingles..the list is endless. This is not a step by step, hold your hand guide for the beginner but a wealth of inspiring ideas for the log and timber framer who sees it and knows he can make it. A valuable reference for the master craftsman.

"...a delightful and immensely instructive book, a book which raises the stature of log building to an art, a book to make log builders proud of their profession." Allan Muir in Log Home Guide. Heavily illustrated with line drawings and photographs, this book by German architect Hermann Phleps, has gained recognition as a definitive work on the ancient European tradition of horizontal log construction. The book is long out of print and nearly impossible to obtain in the original.