The Library at Hearst Castle, California

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About Lloyd Kahn

Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include Shelter, Shelter II (1978), Home Work (2004), Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008), Tiny Homes (2012), and Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:

2 Responses to The Library at Hearst Castle, California

  1. beautiful. so sad to think that today many libraries are being built as "e – libraries" – few if any books. (so why would a little shack filled with computers not work then, instead of millions on fancy building?)

    anyway, the above is magnificent…and i think it would be exceptional if some wealthy person, these days, spent the money to create a space like this for a public (real) library.

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