Thanks to modern communication, anyone who would like to build a yurt is now more able than ever to source out not only the basic yurt plans or blueprints but also to benefit from the advice of others who have gone before you and broken the trail or paved the way for your yurt making success. I am talking about how the internet has done such an amazingly good job of speeding up the process of doing research, not only on how to build a yurt, but on just about any topic from do it yourself projects to arts, sciences and the latest technology.
This writer recalls without any fondness or sentimentality how difficult doing research used to be before the invention of the world wide web. You had to first try your local library, flipping through cards in long, wooden file boxes and hoping the book you needed was not checked out. If your home library was not complete enough, then you had to traipse to a bigger library in a larger city. Today, the miracle of the home personal computer has changed it all into a totally different situation. Instead of not having enough information at hand, the challenge is sorting through an over abundance of information, trying to separate fact from fiction, and eventually coming up with what you hope will be the answer to your question.
In the case of building a yurt, you can access your favorite web browser and search engine and within a matter of seconds you will have at your fingertips the words and pictures offered up from people who are either wanting to sell you their book or DVD about yurt building, or, more happily, sharing their free information about how they built their own yurt and revealing the tips and techniques they picked up along the way. You can then learn from their mistakes and not have to reinvent the wheel.
If the winds are blowing in your favor, you may not only find plans for various sizes and styles of yurts, but also see pictures and diagrams of both traditional Central Asian gers and yurts as well as modern interpretations created by contemporary artisans and crafts people. What's more, although thousands of years ago the nomads of Mongolia and Siberia were limited to only those native building materials they had at hand, today you can choose from a much more wide array of materials from which to build your own yurt.