TINY HOMES: SIMPLE SHELTER
Book ID/图书代码： 12124512B52017
English Summary/英文概要： TINY HOMES is especially timely due to the current grassroots movements in small homes. The real estate collapse, the economic downturn, layoffs, scarcity of good jobs - these things have many people rethinking their ideas about shelter - seeking an alternative to high rents, or a lifelong mortgage debt to a bank on an overpriced home.
Here are some 150 builders who have created tiny homes (under 500 sq. ft.). There are some 1,300 photos of homes on land, homes on wheels, homes on the road, homes on water, even homes in the trees. There are also studios, saunas, garden sheds, and greenhouses.
Here are builders, designers, architects (no less), dreamers, artists, road gypsies, and water dwellers who’ve achieved a measure of freedom and independence by taking shelter into their own hands.
"Scaling back in the 21st century"
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在過去一年裡。約翰•菲爾德賣掉了他在紐約州的2800平方英尺的房子，在德克薩斯州沙漠裡建造了一所128英尺高的小屋。這所名為“旅途中的女士”（本意約翰想要不取名）的小屋，經過精心裝飾後的巴士小屋自打有51年工齡後，一直狀態良好（至今她已有72歲了）。一對加拿大不列顛哥倫比亞省的夫婦擁有一艘漂浮的遊艇花園。受到《庇護所》一書的啟發，一座鄉村小屋建築在門多西諾，鼓偏遠的海灘上，而且只能通過小船可以造訪這所小屋。許多小屋都由原先的拖車改裝而成，因此他們移動方便，並不一定需要土地所有權。越來越多的人選擇在巴士上、卡車上、遊艇上和其它可移動的庇護所中生活。目前有一大批預定房和套件被廣泛應用。面對住房的巨大壓力，許多現代化都市現在已經開始實行應對方案，諸如日本東京的"膠囊"旅館。網站上還有許多關於解決住房問題或是制定小房設計方案的新聞和照片資料。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：This book is looking like a best-seller in the US. We printed 15,000 first printing and one month later are printing 12,500 more.
Lore recent reviews:
"...a glorious portfolio..."---Wall Street Journal 1/30/12
http://shltr.net/THNYT
"...a genuine hit..."---New York Times 2/2/12
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970203363504577187231003879046-lMyQjAxMTAyMDMwMDEzNDAyWj.html?mod=undefined
2-Minute Video About Making the Book
By Jason Sussberg:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-2fsYypJoo&feature=youtu.be
In Korea there is going to be an auction for rights in April.
"...a cornucopia of 1,300 photos featuring 150 different tiny homes, showing how they were built, giving resources and helpful tips of construction, supplying design solutions and inspiration for others, but also conveying WHY they were built. Tiny though they are, they are much more than mere shelter."---Kevin Kelly, CoolTools.org
"Gives me chills, it’s so inspiring." - Cheryl Long, Editor, The Mother Earth News
A "...photo-packed new volume ... (by) Shelter Publications founder and green architecture pioneer Lloyd Kahn..." --- Publishers Weekly
"The book arrived today, all I can say is Wow! It’s beautiful and another one of your masterpieces." --- Kent Griswold, Tiny House Blog
About the Author/作者介绍： 勞埃德•康（生於1935年4月27日）從斯坦福大學獲得學士學位。在五十年代末，在美駐德國空軍部隊服役期間，康曾一度經營管理過兩年的國空軍報紙。1960年，他退役後，作為一名保險經紀人回到加州，他突然辭掉了這份保險工作，成為一名木匠，最終建造了四所房子。
2004年，康發表了《家園：親手構造庇護所》。《家園》總結了他在過去的30年裡，所拍攝下的最上乘的建築物和接觸過的建設師，還包括直接受到《庇護所》這本書啟發的許多靈感。首次在2000年出版的《汙水處理系統的使用者手冊》，在2007年作了全面修訂。2008年Shelter Publications published出版社首度將巴西建築師Johan van Lengen的《赤腳建築師：綠色建築手冊》翻譯成英文。同年，康創作了《太平洋海岸的建設者》。卡恩目前正致力於關於小房子構建結構寫真集。
康為了保持身心健康，年屆75歲，還堅持衝浪、滑板(longboard)和賽跑 （Dipsea）。他在加利福尼亞，三藩市北部太平洋海岸的一個小鎮博利納斯工作生活。Lloyd Kahn ran a newspaper in the U.S. Air Force in the late ’50s, worked as an insurance broker for five years in San Francisco, then as a carpenter for about ten years. He was the shelter editor of the early Whole Earth Catalogs, published Domebook One in 1970, Domebook 2 in 1971, and Shelter in 1973. He lives with his wife Lesley on a half-acre homestead in Northern California.
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