Handmade Houses: A Guide to the Woodbutcher's Art
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Art Boericke and Barry Shapiro. Introduction by Sim Van der Ryn, former California State Architect.
Among the many things that the hippies rebelled against were building codes. The back-to-the-landers of the 60s and 70s didn’t want to live in their parent’s ticky-tacky boxes of drywall and plywood. They wanted homes that were built (in the words of James Hubble) “from the ground up.” And why give your cash to the Man, when lumber and fixtures could be found in vacant lots, or the dump? A gorgeous, crisp first edition copy of this classic book, in a mylar-covered dust jacket.