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.