
Slipform concrete walls à la Taliesin West, where rocks are placed in forms and concrete poured in. Note wagon spring lintel above window. In Tuscarora, Nevada.
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:
Bought 3 slip-form books 2 years ago, hope to build a slip form house on our property in Negros Oriental. Philippines, as it is very close to the river which has tons of rock……
Love this so much,,want this to be my next build. How’d it go