Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter

Home Work: Handbuilt ShelterMaster builder Louie Frazier's Japanese style pole house in Northern California, reachable on a 500" 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 ivillage in Arizona Bill and Athena Steen's strawbale houses Ianto Evans' cob houses in Oregon the Archlibre group of countercultural builders in

Master builder Louie Frazier's Japanese-style pole house in Northern California, reachable on a 500" 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 ivillage 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 Tennesee 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. . .I get excited just listing these things -LK

PS SHELTER, it turns out, had a major influence on builders, and included are buildings our 1973 book inspired, so this is truly a sequel.


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Shelter Publications
Published: 04/20/2004
ISBN: 9780936070339
Pages: 244
Weight: 2.40lbs
Size: 12.02h x 8.98w x 0.65d

Review Citations: Library Journal 06/01/2004 pg. 130