Bamboo is flexible, strong, beautiful, simple, elegant, renewable, sustainable, and best of all affordable. It is highly versatile, requiring little care, yet having an appeal that can change an ordinary setting into an exotic oasis. "Bamboo is sacred," explains author Gale Beth Goldberg, "it embodies the interconnectedness of all life on this planet."

While this book provides a basic introduction to the extensive and deeply rooted role that bamboo plays for more than half of the globe's population, and outlines traditional and historical uses of bamboo in Asian cultures and other Pacific Rim populations, its main thrust is on bamboo in contemporary environments, both indoors and outdoors.

For do-it-yourselfers, the bamboo projects in this book - from a simple ladle to a more complex pergola for the garden - will inspire you to create more designs of your own. In addition, the sourcebook facilitates connections to designers, manufacturers, artists, suppliers, and organizations that present bamboo as a cosmopolitan material for our time.

Gale Beth Goldberg received her master's degree in architecture from MIT and her undergraduate degree in landscape architecture from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She has been a practicing architect for twenty years. Because of her commitment to educate and teach people about bamboo and its many uses, a percentage of the sales from Bamboo Style will be contributed to support bamboo initiatives and organizations throughout the world.

Gale Beth Goldberg's slide presentation at the Tenth Annual Texas Bamboo Festival Bamboo Festival in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, August 25, 2002 was enjoyed by many!

She also presented at the First Bamboo Arts and Craft Network Get Together which was held in conjunction with the 24th Annual Meeting of the Amercian Bamboo Society in New Orleans, October 17 - 20th, 2002.

To book a slide presentation, book signing, or interview with the author of this exciting book, contact Gale Beth Goldberg