Builders of the Pacific Coast

by Lloyd Kahn

Book Overview

Meet the DIY builders of the Pacific Coast, whose homes are practical, imaginative, and environmentally friendly.

If you're fascinated by homes and architecture or if you're seeking inspiration for your own DIY building project, then you have something in common with Lloyd Kahn. In 2004, he discovered a group of unique carpenters along the Pacific Coast of North America. Over a two-year period, he made multiple trips up the coast,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0936070439
• ISBN13: 9780936070438
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Shelter Publications
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.2" x 12.1"

Customer Reviews

great book

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.

Another WOW.

251 pages of WOW until your just left speechless by page after page of amazing home-built architecture. Excellent full colour photos and fascinating stories. If your a fan of the authors other books, "Shelter" and "Home Work" then this is a must have book. I found it quite interesting that most of the builders in this book all own a copy of "Shelter". I guess what goes around comes around. And if your reading this Lloyd, I do look forward to yet newer editions of the "Shelter" series of books in the future.

Stunning, magical, inspiring, a book to cherish

Builders of the Pacific Coast arrived in the mail recently--256 stunning large format (9"x12") color pages-and within minutes I was ensconced in an overstuffed arm chair, slowly leafing through its pages, getting a feel for its scope and grandeur, its, how can I phrase it, the whole spirit of the thing, its...bliss. I was swept away in a reverie. For more than an hour I browsed, and read, and gazed in wonder. As important, I felt a great sense of kinship with people who are members of a tribe to which my wife Susan and I have long felt a deep connection. Here, I thought to myself, is where so many devotees of that 60s icon, The Whole Earth Catalog, moved and fulfilled their vision and their promise. The "here" is mostly Vancouver Island, B.C. and neighboring islands, but also northern California, Oregon and Washington. The dwellings pictured are exquisite: warm, welcoming, comfortable, at times whimsical, sometimes majestic and soaring, and everywhere lovely to behold. The locations are unspecified, the homes' residents often unnamed and unpictured. Here's the caption for a breathtaking two page spread: "This is a magical homestead built mostly out of driftwood and hand-split cedar from nearby woods. The residents cherish their privacy so all we'll say is that it is somewhere on the Pacific Coast. The house, surrounded by gardens and looking out on the blue sea, is built with fine craftsmanship and love." As important, the book arrived at a time when Susan and I had been living in a swirl of anxiety and concern surrounding the election, and our hope that the U.S. was about to emerge from a long night of despair. Seeing the beauty and harmony that graces every page of Builders of the Pacific Coast brought something immensely calming into our home and hearth, a kind of heart- opening grace and a groundedness. I am deeply grateful for that. We shall cherish this book to the end of our days. John Grissim, author Pure Stoke and The Lost Treasure of the Concepcion

Continued Tradition

Living on the west coast I can see on a daily basis the influence of books on shelter by Lloyd Kahn. This latest effort is filled with in-depth coverage of over 40 unique builders/crafts-people, a lot of whom are in British Columbia. These are all what I'd call true homes built by people who are skilled but are artisans creating their own dwellings. One can barely read a page without getting an idea to do something creative for their own home. The photographs and writing are top notch and Lloyd's experience as a builder, as a communicator, as an avid environmentally conscious individual allows each person and place to come alive. This is a table top book one wants others to peruse when visiting. One does not need to move to the rural areas for the essence of such living is held within the over 250 pages of this beautiful visual hymn to the creative builder.

Yet another great book from the author of Homework and Shelter

Builders of the Pacific Coast takes up where Homework left off, connecting the reader with these amazing people and their work. It gives me hope that the whole world isn't "little boxes made of tickey tackey".