Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter

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

Series: The Shelter Library of Building Books

Paperback: 256 pages

Publisher: Shelter Publications (April 20 2004)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9780936070339

ISBN-13: 978-0936070339

ASIN: 0936070331

Product Dimensions: 9 x 0.8 x 12 inches

Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds