Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter

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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 at the roof at night / Ma Page’s bottle house within 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 within the French Pyrenees / Bill Coperthwaite’s spectacular 3-story yurt within the Maine woods / Bill Castle’s finely-crafted log home and sauna within the NY Appalachians / a commune within 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 in every single place the world by photographers Yoshio Komatsu and Kevin Kelly + more, so much more. . .I am getting excited just listing these items! -LK

PS SHELTER, it seems , had a tremendous influence on builders, and included are buildings our 1973 book inspired, so that is actually a sequel.

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