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Home Work Handbuilt Shelter by Lloyd Khan 9" x 12" Ton's of Photo's

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Item specifics

Condition
Like New
A book in excellent condition. Cover is shiny and undamaged, and the dust jacket is included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
Seller Notes
“In very good condition! May have a slight smoke smell.”
Personalize
No
Era
2000s
Signed
No
Ex Libris
No
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Personalized
No
Original Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Inscribed
No
Vintage
No
ISBN
9780936070339

About this product

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Shelter Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0936070331
ISBN-13
9780936070339
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30450238

Product Key Features

Book Title
Home Work : Handbuilt Shelter
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
Construction / General, Buildings / Residential, Vernacular
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Architecture, Technology & Engineering
Author
Lloyd Kahn
Book Series
The Shelter Library of Building Bks.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
43.1 Oz
Item Length
12 in
Item Width
9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-018478
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
690/.837
Synopsis
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 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., Building on the enormous success of the original Shelter , Lloyd Kahn continues his odyssey of finding and exploring the most magnificent and unusual hand-built houses in existence. Among the intriguing domiciles described in Home Work are a Japanese-style stilt house accessible only by a cable across a river; a stone house in a South African valley whose roof serves as a baboon trampoline; multi-level treehouses on the South China Sea; and a bottle house in the Nevada desert. Over 1,500 photos illustrate various innovative architectural styles and natural building materials that have gained popularity in the last two decades such as cob, papercrete, bamboo, adobe, strawbale, timber framing, and earthbags., 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., Building on the enormous success of the original Shelter , Lloyd Kahn continues his odyssey of finding and exploring the most magnificent and unusual hand-built houses in existence. Among the intriguing domiciles described in Home Work are a Japanese-style stilt house accessible only by a cable across a river; a stone house in a South African valley whose roof serves as a baboon trampoline; multi-level treehouses on the South China Sea; and a bottle house in the Nevada desert. Over 1,500 photos illustrate various innovative architectural styles and natural building materials that have gained popularity in the last two decades such as cob, papercrete, bamboo, adobe, strawbale, timber framing, and earthbags. 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.
LC Classification Number
TH4815.K34 2004

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