![]() Here’s a few more fun books from the Land Library’s shelves: A Shelter Sketchbook: Timeless Building Solutions (also pictured above) contains more than 600 elegantly simple and practical structures - the accumulated wisdom of anonymous builders, all responsive to their immediate environment and the available resources. ![]() ![]() What Yoshio Komatsu has captured with his camera, John Taylor has equaled with his pen-and-ink drawings. Beginning with the basic ways that human beings have sought shelter - beneath the trees and stars, under protection of a rock cliff or cave - this book traces the transformation of materials such as earth, stone, wood or bamboo, into shelter.” It’s hard to improve on the authors’ own words as they describe their book:īuilt by Hand is a celebration of what is so uniquely diverse and yet similar in the buildings of different cultures around the world. Built by Hand: Vernacular Buildings Across the World (with text by Bill & Athena Steen and Eiko Komatsu) is a hefty omnibus of Yoshio’s work. ![]() Yoshio Komatsu has devoted the last twenty-five years to photographing the wide diversity of homemade shelters. Among our favorite books at the Land Library are those devoted to traditional architecture across the globe - so often simple and elegant structures built with the natural elements at hand. ![]()
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