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Shelter
Edited By Lloyd Kahn
| 176 pages |
11" x 14" |
Trade paperback |
| $24.95 |
1973 |
ISBN-10: 0-936070-11-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-936070-11-7 |
With over 1000 photographs, Shelter is the classic book celebrating the imagination, resourcefulness, and exuberance of human habitat. First published in 1973, the book gave birth to the "Green Building" revolution of today. Learn about:
- Caves
- Huts
- Dogon dwellings
- Masai, Ethopian, Kabre dwellings
- Iron Age huts
- Tin and thatch
- Tents
- Tuareg tents
- Bedouin tents
- Tekna
- Yurts
- Early timber structures
- Sheds
- Hexagon barn
- Floors and footings
- Concrete floors
- Windows and doors
- Roofing and skylights
- Tools and tips
- Japanese homes
- Shakes and shingling
- Eucalyptus lumber
- Saplings
- Timber-frame
- Mortise and tenon
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- Cob
- Cinva-Ram
- Stone
- Baled hay
- Plaster
- Sod
- Canvas
- Hawaiian lashing
- Reed
- Bamboo
- Thatching
- Wrecking, salvage, and recycled building material
- Earth shelters
- Housetrucks
- Houseboats & junks
- Treehouses
- Carpenter Gothic
- Dome
- Log
- Adobe
- Zomes
- Solar water heaters
- Solar energy
- Windmills
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Some Sample Pages From Shelter
Sample Chapter
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A piece of environmental drama.”
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Building Design |
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An embarrassment of riches…” |
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Manas |
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A cult classic from the heyday of teach-ins and VWs, this large-format book may have inspired more owner-builders to build crazy structures than any other. Organized like a big scrapbook, it seamlessly blends vernacular building traditions from all over the world with far-out American hippie shelters, including geodesic domes, gypsy wagons, tree houses, windmills, and bizarre ferrocement living sculptures. The great photos and drawings, interviews with builders, historical research, and wacky anecdotes are still just as entertaining 30 years later.” |
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The Art of Natural Building |
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How very fine it is to leaf through a 176-page book on architecture — from baliwicks to zomes — and find no palaces, no pyramids or temples, no cathedrals, skyscrapers, Kremlins or Pentagons in sight…instead, a book of homes, habitations for human beings in all their infinite variety.”
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Edward Abbey
Natural History Magazine |
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For a color catalog of our books and mail-order info,
email orders@shelterpub.com or call toll-free at 1-800-307-0131. |
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