Includes links to the Mud Girls, Tiny Texas Houses and other builders in the book, as well as a 2-minute video shot here at the homestead by a film crew commissioned by Sailor Jerry Rum.
https://www.theurbn.com/2012/06/tiny-homes-simple-shelter/
This was at the bottom of an order for our book Shelter last week:
“I came across an original copy of this book in the early 90’s teaching art students at college, at an old heads house in North London. She let me make a photocopy of it and I would use it to demonstrate how age-old construction technologies are transcendent and empowering. I lost the copy before emigrating to the US and for the life of me couldn’t remember the title, in spite of continually using it as a reference point! So imagine my delight when 20 years later I rediscovered that it’s still in print and now I can recommend it to EVERYONE!
Man – Humble apologies for making a copy all those years ago. As I cannot begin to express my gratitude, and the influence it bore, for this WONDERFUL piece of art. You captured the spirit of an age still yet to be realized, and that’s a continuous source of inspiration!
Blessings on your house.
Glen”
Mike Litchfield, author of Inlaws, Outlaws and Granny Flats: Your guide to turning one house into 2 homes (which I recommend in all my bookstore appearances), did an interview of me about owner-builders and tiny homes on KWMR, our local community radio station, and it was posted on CozyDigz, Mike’s online editorial column for Fine Homebuilding a few days ago: https://www.finehomebuilding.com/item/23718/tiny-homes-simple-shelters
Spoonbill & Sugartown is a unique independent bookstore in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn — everything in the book world that Amazon is not. This was my 15th signing/slideshow event in the last 3 months and it was off to a good start when, before I started, a big guy came up and said he first saw Shelter when he was 8 years old and it had inspired him to become a builder. Plus my good friends from Bolinas, now living in NYC, twin skateboarder/artists Shelter and Ivory Serra showed up.
I did the slides (11″ MacAir and lightweight Epson digital projector all of which I carry in my backpack) and answered questions, and 2+ hours flew by. Such good vibes.
Collage poster by Rachel Day
I was pretty wiped out, especially after 4 nights of minimal sleep, and walked down to the Venezuelan restaurant Caracas on Grand and had 2 “Dark & Strong” rum/ginger drinks and a plate of shredded beef w/rice and black beans. Great place, cool personnel, great food and drink (about 25 types of rum). Williamsburg is a great area, just across the river from Manhattan. There’s a peacefulness in the air, even with all the activity and people. Absent is the roar of the Big City.
Ahh! End of my tour. Now one more half-day at the book expo and then 3 days to scout for adventure in this, the capital of the universe.
This must be the most soulful architecture book Rizzoli has ever published. (Full disclosure: The big timber house called “Hill of the Hawk” (pictured here) that I worked on in the ’60s in Big Sur is one of the houses; also the very simple used-material house I built for my family in the same time period.) Richard Olsen has put together a book of real homes, built by architects and non-architects, that is rich in colors and wood and creativity. Check it out in an independent bookstore.
Lew just sent me this link: https://huff.to/JzSIbC
Rick Gordon has produced an in-house state-of-the-art, fixed-layout EPUB version of Tiny Homes, which accurately replicates the design and content of the print version. It is extensively hyperlinked, with zoomable images and text. I have not seen any ebook this complex (1300 photos) in all of the Apple world. We are thrilled with it.
It can be read on an iPad or iPhone that has iOS 5 (or higher) installed and a current version of the iBooks app (available for free from the App Store, if not already installed). Note: This is not a PDF nor an app.
It’s available in the Apple iBookstore at
https://shltr.net/tinyhomes-ibooks. You can download free sample pages (38 selected pages) to check it out. It is $13.99. If you get the eBook, you can get the print book for a 40% discount.
Recipient of the 2012 Nautilus Silver Award in the category of Green Living.
Dan Wright, Technical Manager for CircularFLO (the software Rick used) in an email to Rick titled “Your masterpiece…,” wrote: “(This) is the most impressive Fixed Layout EPUB I have ever seen.”
We’d appreciate you spreading the word about this if you can. Blog it or Tweet it or Facebook it. It’s really good. I guar-an-tee it.
GIMME SHELTER is an email newsletter I send out to about 600 people every few months, mainly to people in the book trade, but to friends as well. Here’s the latest, on Tiny Homes and my relentless road tour:
https://www.shelterpub.com/_gimme/_2012-05-15/gimme_shelter-2012-05-15.html
Evan and Lew at our booth. Lew set the whole thing up by himself Friday afternoon. (I’m at Verve barista center in Santa Cruz Monday morning, going back over photos from last few days. all shot with my new Canon Powershot S100, as well as a Sony Cybershot panoramic-enabled Exmoor.)
When I was in Minnesota, I did a radio interview in Grand Marais at radio station WTIP; this transcription just arrived. I talk about the tiny homes book, the ’60s, and the new generation (20 yr olds) who are discovering the Shelter book.
I also did a GIMME SHELTER newsletter last week, which I send out to about 600 people at erratic intervals. It’s here: I’m in this 3-month promo blitz (well, blitz for me), and I feel a little odd about all the self-promo, but by golly, it’s just the way things work these days. My goal is to get people to pick up the book and look at it.
Includes links to the Mud Girls, Tiny Texas Houses and other builders in the book, as well as a 2-minute video shot here at the homestead by a film crew commissioned by Sailor Jerry Rum.
