Home Work

• 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.