More Than a Roof; Bolinas Publisher Gives New Meaning to 'Shelter'
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As he built, he observed. As he traveled around the world, he began shooting photographs of hand-built homes. The result is the 1,100 photos and more than 300 drawings illustrating buildings assembled by human hands. The book profiles builders such as Louie Frazier, a "surfer/fisherman/gardener who had the foresight to get a 39-acre piece of land in Mendocino County in the early 1980s," [Lloyd Kahn] says. The home and shop Frazier constructed on that land wasn't just "fine homebuilding," and it wasn't "fussy craftsmanship for millionaires," he says. "It was a rare combination of owner-builder-designer-master craftsman all built to a human and livable scale."
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More Than a Roof; Bolinas Publisher Gives New Meaning to 'Shelter'
Few among us have not dreamed of building a home. Be it a cabin on a creek or a mansion on a hill, there's something about the idea of creating our own shelter that is a...
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