![]() Furthermore, many of these houses are off the grid and rely on solar power, composting toilets, etc. The examples that Kahn presents in this book are invariably made from recycled and natural materials and all are works of art in themselves. ![]() There are hundreds, if not thousands, of alternative living situations detailed here and the hand-built houses - from around the world - will make you wish that every last suburb was burned to the ground so that the world could be remade in the image of this book. Home Work covers a lot of the same territory as Shelter did, but unlike Shelter is full of beautiful full-color photographs. In Shelter Kahn advocated a return to the hand-built house, emphasizing traditional building methods over the high-tech solutions that had been advocated throughout the 40s, 50s, and 60s (culminating in the dome house, a form that he initially helped to pioneer, but eventually rejected). ![]() Home Work is the followup to Shelter, Lloyd Kahn's influential 1973 guide to alternative living and DIY homebuilding. ![]()
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