Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter

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. Read more