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Whether you start with the Book of Genesis or the Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, we humans have long loved tales about creating a new world - or building one from scratch. Lloyd Kahn's new book, Builders of the Pacific Coast, is primarily an account of builders and hand-crafted structures dating from the 60s to the 80s. Yet the rugged coastal setting of his odyssey - a blue and green world from Point Reyes Peninsula to Vancouver Island - invokes a simpler, more pristine time, an Eden of sorts. When forests grew down to the sea, building codes were few, lumber was plentiful (often free) and anyone with skill, a strong back and the courage to try could create something beautiful and enduring. On every page of this book is something shocking and delightful. A boat with legs. A roof like a leaf. A caravan with eyes. A split-cedar woodshed shaped like a bird. Stair rails so sinuous and snakey they might come to life and grab you. Sculpted earth walls. Round windows and arched doors. Roofs curved like seagull wings. Grottos choked with ferns and flowers. Not that there's any shortage of creatures and fantastical characters. Just off-camera lurk orcas, eagles and bears. And then there are the builders themselves. There hasn't been a cast of characters this colorful since Ken Kesey packed up his Underwood. Builders of the Pacific Coast rolls on, mile after mile, in an odyssey so firsthand and vivid that you feel every rut in the road. And come to know, as Lloyd Kahn did, the soul of the place. The strong hands and big hearts of the people, the staggering abundance of the land and sea, the leaping joy that such a place still exists. --Mike Litchfield, West Marin Citizen, October 30, 2008Lloyd Kahn has done it again. This gifted photographer and storyteller has created a beautiful, inspiring and imaginative book about natural human shelter made by ordinary, artful hands. With Builders of the Pacific Coast, Kahn focuses the lens of his camera on the hand built structures he discovered journeying along the Pacific coast north to British Columbia from his home near San Francisco. As with his previous book Shelter, and its sequel "Home Work", Kahn lets the buildings and the builders speak mostly for themselves. These buildings speak of wood and water, broad landscapes and natural elements, and the men and women who integrate these resources and inspirations into shelter and assemblages of natural beauty. While much of the book focuses on homesteads, boats, sculptural buildings of driftwood and stone, and more than forty builders, Kahn gives more than a third of the book to feature the work of three unique builders, Lloyd House, Bruno Atkey and SunRay Kelley. This choice is a wise one, as each of these men has created a body of work worthy of a book or two each. Read Builders of the Pacific Coast just to see what these builders have done with trees. The structures House makes by "... (getting) the bullet out of the gun and then (running) after it to get it to hit the right spot" are a conundrum of simplicity and intricate complex assembly. Kelley's sense of whimsy, mammoth scale and sublime organic freedom may remind one of Spain's Gaudi. In Kelly's work we are treated to equally exotic, massive and sculptural buildings but of whole trees, straw and clay. Pioneering surfer and tinkerer Atkey seems to have made or assembled everything around him, from his knife to his stove to the houses he's built with fine craftsmanship and love. One of Kahn's photos of an Atkey seaside homestead interior looks like a sketch by M.C. Escher come to life in 3-D color and speaks to both the skill of the builder and the photographer. Lloyd Kahn has likely done more to bring the work of natural builders into public consciousness than just about anyone in recent times. Countless times in recent years I have been told by owner-builders, designers, architects and pioneers of the natural building movement that one of Lloyd's books inspired their projects. I look forward to the new creations inspired by this latest very good work by Lloyd Kahn and his Shelter Publications. --Jack Stephens, Natural Building Network

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From the Author

I finished laying out the last two pages of this book on a Sunday afternoon. I felt kind of elated, since it'd been such a long haul -- three years from start to finish. I decided to sleep on the beach that night, as the next day was my birthday and I wanted to watch the sunrise from the beach.I took off on foot from home, with a pack and sleeping bag. It was early evening and a northwest wind was blowing pretty hard. When I got to my usual spot on the beach (about three miles), lo and behold -- here was this little driftwood shack. Perfect. I crawled inside. It felt good. Shelter from the wind, cozy, nice touches. A starfish over the doorway. Boards carefully fitted, no nails.I rolled out my tarp and sleeping bag, stashed my pack, took off my shoes, patrolled the beach, and came back in time to watch the sunset from inside.It was a perfect ending to this book on coastal homes -- this random little soulful building, a temporary assemblage on the Pacific Ocean, by an anonymous free-spirited builder. Put together from driftwood brought to this spot by ocean currents. Shelter from the wind and fog; a place to get out of the sun, to take a nap, to listen to the waves, to watch the sunset, to sleep at night -- shelter as simple as a roof overhead.-LK

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Product details

Series: The Shelter Library of Building Books

Paperback: 256 pages

Publisher: Shelter Publications, Inc.; 1St Edition edition (October 28, 2008)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0936070439

ISBN-13: 978-0936070438

Product Dimensions:

9.2 x 0.7 x 12.1 inches

Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.5 out of 5 stars

38 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#180,745 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Just an endless rambling of hippy nonsense. Much of the buildings are hideous death traps. Throwing a bunch of drift wood together into a shanty doesn't make you an artist, or a craftsman. I'm very disappointed in this book especially for how much praise it's received. If anything this is a reminder of how the baby boomers squandered mine and following generations futures for their own gain. Now you can't find any of these types of properties. They voted selfishly and stuck us with massive debt that can never be paid. It must have been nice being able to enjoy the greatest era of human history and leaving us with nothing.

Good pictures for ideas, which is part of what we wanted, we just wish this book had either limited 'schematic drawings or how-to information' to go along with the pictorials. We plan on getting books to supplement this one, AND finding the village elder or "Mr Miyagi", to help us as we try to "make what the pictures show". Again, not bad.

we have just built our own pole house and this book was my bible. it's such a beautiful and inspiring book, and in the planning stages for our house, i pretty much read through it nearly every day just to excite myself about our project and to glean more wonderful ideas. it was so handy to show our builders pictures of details i wanted to incorporate, and i've shown and lent it to many friends who also loved it. it's a wonderful book - a heart-warming read and fabulous pictures. highly recommend it to anyone who wants to have a home with loving, hand-made detail.cheers

I bought this when I was building my first house and it inspired me to think outside the box and be creative about finishing. A great book for wood working types, handy wood oriented types and those who want something different in their house but need some inspiration. Great book and good value.

you'll be provided with many innovative and unique and yet practical in function (can't say in form as these are one of a kind) - loved the book - it gave me many ideas and encouraged me to try myself... maybe you will too!~?!.

Some interesting ideas illustrated in the country back west to let the out east boys know that creativity does not rise with the sun, but falls, instead, wherever it will as circumstances provide and necessity requires.

this is a great book with lots of ideas and imagination. you will want to crawl inside and live in this book. just wish there was more how to do it but well worth the money. anyone wanting to live an alternative lifestyle or build an amazing house with wood should have this book for inspiration and ideas.

You should buy this, if you have ever looked at the original "Shelter" book by Lloyd Kahn as this adds more to the concept of bullding beautiful , it will inspire you, just get the permits as the local inspectors will help you do it and you won't have any problems down the road.

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