Home Work – Handbuilt Shelter Book

This unique book of homes, builders, dwellers, dreamers, and doers is the result of Lloyd Kahn’s thirty-year odyssey shooting photos and gathering information about builders around the world. It is also the sequel to Kahn’s best-selling book Shelter, which was published in 1973.

There are some 1100 photos and over 300 drawings, all illustrating buildings assembled with human hands.

There’s Japanese-style stilt house accessible only by going on a cable 500 feet across a river, a stone house in South Africa where baboons jump up and down on the roof at night, multilevel tree houses on the South China Sea, and a house built of bottles in the Nevada desert. There are ten pages of photos from Archlibre, a number of off-grid solar-powered houses in the Northern California woods, and a section on natural materials: straw bake, cob, bamboo, and log structures.
Home Work continues the journey that started with Shelter, and is the first in Shelter Publications’ new series of books about handmade buildings.

Condition: Good as new.