Shelter |  | Creators: Lloyd Kahn, Bob Easton
Publisher: Shelter Publications
Category: Book
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 40032
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 176
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 14.5 x 10.8 x 0.4
ISBN: 0936070110
Dewey Decimal Number: 728
EAN: 9780936070117
ASIN: 0936070110
Publication Date: May 1, 2000
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Amazon.com Review
Lloyd Kahn has managed to pull together a stunning catalog of the phenomenon of human shelter through history, across cultures and climates from around the world. Yurts and huts and tree houses and cathedrals of stone. This is an eye-opener for anyone considering building their own home, or anyone just interested in human inventiveness and creativity. With over 1000 photos and drawings of cave houses, communal huts, wooden shacks, tents, domes, towers and holes in the ground, you'll be amazed at all the different ways people have tried to keep the rain off their heads and the wolves outside!
Product Description
Shelter is many things - a visually dynamic, oversized compendium of organic architecture past and present; a how-to book that includes over 1,250 illustrations; and a Whole Earth Catalog-type sourcebook for living in harmony with the earth by using every conceivable material. First published in 1973, Shelter 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. The authors recount personal stories about alternative dwellings that illustrate sensible solutions to problems associated with using materials found in the environment - with fascinating, often surprising results.
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 ! Very inspiring, a must-have reference. I never get tired of this book. October 1, 2005
SteveCedarman (Arizona USA)
32 out of 33 found this review helpful
Shelters is a must-own classic. I treasure my copy, and I am actually came to the amazon site today to buy 3 copies of this book, one to donate to my Church library, one for a Christmas gift for a carpenter friend, and one to complement my first edition of this book. This book was first released in 1973 by Shelter Press. If this book is of interest, check out the other books from them.
This is a big, oversize paperback the size of a road atlas. Every page packed with great drawings, photos or diagrams. I never get tired of browsing through the pictures, reading some of the stories, and getting inspiration to go out and build a shelter, a home, for a planned or unplanned need to build a place to live; this book covers expedient shelters of many types.
I have yet to see a better book on this subject, it is simply a fantastic reference and a joy to read. This is not a book simply on construction methodology, this is a book about people building shelter to reflect available materials, tools, budget, and most of all culture.
HANDBUILT HOUSES, BY FREE THINKING PEOPLE. WAY COOL YES. May 15, 2006
A. Lawrence (Nth Coast NSW, Australia)
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
I studied architecture in Australia and dragged my feet through the course. That is until a mate suggested I check out this book.
It liberated me.
Here was a bunch of common folk who met one of the most basic needs of all humanity - shelter.
So much of what we encounter in our 'western' enlightened age is alien and regulated. The materials that we commonly use in buildings & infrastruture is devoid of any life or connection with the earth. They are not in or close to their natural state. And even if they are, there is so much regulation and stipulation on how we are to use them.
But this book gives you hope, a chance to dream. It shows buildings as art forms, useful & practical but completely expressive of the owners they serve. They are not bound by regulations and conventions. This is craftsmanship not industrialisation. They are made from from natural unrefined materials which in essence connects us to the earth, which we all belong to. From dust we came, to dust we will all return. The beauty of nature is your own home.
This book is filled with ideas and ways in which people have often 'escaped' from the life draining cities to a more peacuful and harmonious way of life. It's superb photo's, hand illustrations and even the way the book is laid out are a freedom in itself. This is one book you will not regret owning and will always find pleasure returning again and again to.
Better Introduction you Can't get... Start Building September 26, 2005
Thought2Action (Paris, France)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
The approach to building, to space, to light and to atmosphere which Kahn & Easton have gathered in this book demonstrate a profound interest and concern, if not love, for exploring mind-space & life in its fullest. This book --full of examples, considerations and ideas-- ignites the smarts and hands of anybody with the will to make his house and his home his own.
THE Book. December 14, 2002
Scott Knudsen (Air Ronge, Saskatchewan Canada)
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
This is THE Book to own if you have any interest in building construction, architecture, and lifestyle. The pictures are many, and great, and the reading is also just as interesting. I bought some as gifts, and for each of my carpenter friends.
wonderful find January 7, 2008
C. Leftwich (Kalamazoo Mi USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I saw this book at my brother's house and immediately knew I had to buy it for my husband. It is a high quality reprint of an older book and has that "60's" feel. Much excellent info and lots of great pictures. Very eclectic. We got it specifically for the info on Geodesic Dome houses but there's plenty more for shelter freaks.
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