Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter


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  • Master builder Louie Frazier's Japanese-style pole house in Northern California, reachable on a 500-foot cable across a river
  • Ian MacLeod's handbuilt stone house in South Africa, where baboons jump on the roof at night
  • Ma Page's bottle house in the Nevada desert
  • Artist Michael Kahn's semi-subterranean sculptural village in Arizona
  • Bill and Athena Steen's strawbale houses
  • Ianto Evans' cob houses in Oregon
  • The Archlibre group of countercultural builders in the French Pyrenees
  • Bill Coperthwaite's spectacular 3-story yurt in the Maine woods
  • Bill Castle's finely-crafted log home and sauna in the NY Appalachians
  • A commune in the Tennessee mountains
  • The "Flying Concrete" brothers in Mexico and their far-out sculptural structures
  • Barns in California, Washington, and Connecticut
  • Photo-essays of Lloyd Kahn's trips to Nevada, the Mississippi Delta, Costa Rica, Nova Scotia, and Baja California
  • Photos of buildings all over the world by photographers Yoshio Komatsu and Kevin Kelly + more, lots more....
Shelter, it turns out, had a major influence on builders, and included are buildings our 1973 book inspired, so this is truly a sequel.



Author: Lloyd Kahn
Publisher: Shelter Publications
Published: 04/20/2004
Pages: 244
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.40lbs
Size: 12.02h x 8.98w x 0.65d
ISBN13: 9780936070339
ISBN10: 0936070331
BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | Buildings | Residential
- Technology & Engineering | Construction | General