Handmade Houses: A Guide to the Woodbutcher's Art

By Art Boericke, Barry Shapiro

Categories: Arts & Photography, Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Handmade Houses is a 1973 book by writer Art Boericke and photographer Barry Shapiro celebrating owner-built homes of the American West. The book tours houses made by hand from salvaged timber, stone and found materials, mostly in Northern California and the Pacific Northwest, many built by people with no formal training. Shapiro's photographs and Boericke's text show the craftsmanship, improvisation and personal character of these homes, and the book became a classic of the counterculture building movement.

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• Jason Fried: “Handmade Houses, published by Scrimshaw Press, is such a lovely old book of architecture without architects.”