Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter, Paperback
Descriere
Master builder Louie Frazier's Japanese-style pole house in Northern California, reachable on a 500"" cable across a river / Ian Mac Leod'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.
Despre autor
Lloyd Kahn este un editor, autor, fotograf, dulgher și arhitect autodidact american. Este editorul-fondator al companiei Shelter Publications, Inc., și fostul editor al revistei Whole Earth Catalog. Este un pionier al mișcărilor legate de construcții ecologice și arhitectură sustenabilă. Cartea sa „Shelter” (1973), despre arhitectura realizată de propriii autori, a vândut mai mult de 250.000 de exemplare.
