Product Overview
Shelter
An embarassment of riches.
-- Manas
How very fine it is to leaf through a 176-page book on architecture -- from bailiwicks to zomes -- and find no palaces, no pyramids or temples, no cathedrals, skyscrapers, Kremlins, or Pentagons in sight... instead, a book of homes, habitations for human beings in all their infinite variety. -- Edward Abbey
Shelter is a must not only for those actively engaged in house building, but for everyone who understands that lifestyle begins at home -- that we are, after all, where we live. -- Rolling Stone
Shelter is lavishly illustrated, containing over 1000 photographs, numerous drawings, and 250,000 words of text concerned with basic shelters from all over the world. -- San Francisco Chronicle
It's time to educate the architects. To that extent this book on shakes and wattle and daub is the most revolutionary architecture book around...
-- Architecture In Australia
A piece of environmental drama.
-- Building Design
