BUILDERS OF THE PACIFIC COAST

Book ID/图书代码： 12124510B35295

English Summary/英文概要： In 2004, Lloyd Kahn discovered a group of unique carpenters along the Pacific Coast of North America. Over a two-year period, he made four trips north from his home in the San Francisco Bay Area, up the coast, shooting the photos that appear in this book.

To preserve homeowners’ privacy, specific locations are not given, but suffice to say this book focuses on the Pacific Coast north from San Francisco up to and around Vancouver Island, British Columbia, latitudes 37 to 49 degrees.

There’s been a vortex of creative carpentry energy in this part of the world over the last 30 years. Many of the builders shown here got started in the countercultural era of the ’60s and ’70s, and their work has never been shown in books or magazine articles.

As in the author’s previous books Shelter and Home Work, there are three featured builders: Lloyd House, master craftsman and designer who has created a series of unique homes on a small island; Bruno Atkey, builder of a number of houses and lodges built of hand-split cedar on “The Wild Coast” (the Pacific Ocean side of Vancouver Island), and SunRay Kelley, barefoot builder tuned into Nature, who has designed and built wildly imaginative structures in Washington, California, and other parts of the country.

In addition, there are working homesteads, sculptural buildings of driftwood, homes that are beautiful as well as practical, live-aboard boats, gypsy-type caravans, and examples of stunning architectural design.

The two predominant features of the landscape here are water and wood. Most of these buildings are on or close to the sea. Islands are reached by ferries; it’s a marine environment. And, there’s an abundance of wood. Trees grow fast and tall in rainy Northwest forests; many of these buildings were constructed entirely from logs off the beach or trees from adjacent land.

You’re invited to come along on these trips up and down the coast: going down these roads, riding the ferries, camping on the beaches, meeting these builders, and seeing their unique creations.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 勞埃德•康延續用自己的創新技術，創意理念構建自己家園的夢想，他運用可持續材料和以自然元素的基準設計自己的作品 — — 《建造一個太平洋海濱小屋》探索的美學結合在加利福尼亞州華盛頓州和不列顛哥倫比亞省的崎嶇地形的三位大師的傑作技能。這三個別具特色的工匠 — — 勞埃德的房子、布魯斯•阿特基，和雷•凱利的採光技術— — 運用創新的理念結合富有想像力的建築美學藝術：從與眾不同的船屋到由浮木雕塑而成的處所，一切盡在其內。絢麗的色彩和黑白照片，以及詳細的房屋設計圖紙，這組獨特而又前衛的設計模版為未來的居住者創建了一個遠見的居住架構。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：“...a lovely masterpiece”---Kevin Kelly, founding Executive Editor, Wired magazine kk.org

“On every page is something shocking and delightful. A boat with legs. A roof like a leaf. A caravan with eyes. A split-cedar woodshed shaped like a bird. Stair rails so sinuous and snakey they might come to life and grab you. Sculpted earth walls. Round windows and arched doors. Roofs curved like seagull wings. …and then there are the builders themselves. There hasn’t been a cast of characters this colorful since Ken Kesey packed up his Underwood.…”---Mike Litchfield, West Marin Citizen, Pt. Reyes Station, Calif

“Lloyd Kahn has likely done more to bring the work of natural builders into public consciousness than just about anyone in recent times. Countless times in recent years I have been told by owner-builders, designers, architects, and pioneers of the natural building movement that one of Lloyd’s books inspired their projects.”---Jack Stephens, Natural Building Network www.naturalbuildingnetwork.org

“What a fabulously inspiring piece of art! Truly amazing !”---Sim Van der Ryn, former California State Architect www.vanderryn.com

“Wild, woodsy, whimsical. And profoundly West Coast. These are homes that bring to mind tree houses for grown-ups — with recognizable boughs, trunks and timbers incorporated in utterly original ways and perched as close to nature as possible.”---Katherine Dedyna Vancouver Sun

“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

“Thanks to Lloyd Kahn’s book, the pioneering spirit embodied in these homes nestling on the fringe of civilization is going to rebound against the Pacific and return homeward to inspire new generations of selfbuilders.”---Simon Fairlie, The Land, www.tlio.org.uk

“A wonderful collection of imagination and possibility.…”---Steven Leckart, CoolTools, www.kk.org/cooltools/

“…these sun-glowing, grinning craftspeople…have clearly looked, selected, waited, and then placed all this twisted, left-over sea-beaten driftwood with such exquisitely precise casualness that allows these miraculous enclosures to achieve a higher state of architectural life because they never lose the original nature of their ingredients - timber, stone, grass.”---Peter Nabokov, Professor of World Arts, Cultures & American Indian Studies, UCLA

“Kahn’s three books overlap, play off one another, and diverge in a way that mirrors the varied yet coherent nature of the structures they document. Each also represents the spirit of the times…”---Jacoba Charles, Point Reyes Light

“This collection of unique and progressive designs creates a template for a future filled with forward-thinking, organic architecture.…”---Kolin Lymworth, “Kolin’s Book of the Week” Banyen Books, Vancouver, BC

“…this is a beautiful and grand step in your further exploration that began with Shelter. It is fun, inspiring, enriching, and a joy. I would call it your masterpiece but I know the road is still out there, the camera still works, the truck still runs…and your curiosity will push you out there again.”---George Young, George Young Books (and Lloyd’s friend)

“… a beautiful visual hymn to the creative builder.”---Jack Fulton, photographer (and Lloyd’s friend)

About the Author/作者介绍： Editor-in-chief of Shelter Publications, an independent California publisher. Shelter specializes in books on building and architecture, as well as health and fitness.

Format:照片

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