Kahn, Lloyd Shelter (0936070110)

<p><b>Read the definitive, complete guide to shelters—more than 300,000 copies sold!</b></p> <p><i>Shelter</i> is so amazing, so revolutionary, that the best way to describe it is with one word: everything! It’s a history of architecture, a do-it-yourself (DIY) guide, a scrapbook, and a collection of essays and stories. If you’ve ever wondered about any aspect of houses, homes, or other simple structures in which people have lived, this is the book for you.</p> <p>First published in 1973, <i>Shelter</i> remains a source of inspiration and invention. Including the nuts-and-bolts aspects of building, the book covers such topics as dwellings, from Iron Age huts to Bedouin tents to Togo''s tin-and-thatch houses; nomadic shelters, from tipis to “housecars;” and domes; dome cities; sod iglus; and even treehouses.</p> <p>Authors Lloyd Kahn and Bob Easton recount personal stories about alternative dwellings that demonstrate sensible solutions to problems associated with using materials found in the environment—with fascinating, often surprising results.</p> <p><i>Shelter</i> is many things:</p> <p></p><ul><li>a visually dynamic, oversized compendium of organic architecture, past and present;</li> <li>a how-to book that includes more than 1,250 illustrations; and</li> <li>a <i>Whole Earth Catalog</i>-type of sourcebook for living in harmony with the earth by using every conceivable material.</li></ul><p></p>