Handmade Houses

[Barrie Christian]

I was not sure where to place this topic - in Architecture Style, or here...

The term "Handmade Houses" was first used (I think) in the book of the same name by Art Boericke and Barry Shapiro. It is a wonderful collection of improvised constructions, mostly wood, showing that there is a way to achieve an individual - very individual - home.
Handmade-Houses-3.jpg
More pictures are available at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40015199@N ... 878363502/

Other books covering similar subjects include:
Handmade Houses & Other Buildings: The World of Vernacular Architecture by John May & Anthony Reid, Thames and Hudson;
Handmade Houses by Richard Olson, Rizzoli;
and one of my favourites,
Architecture without Architects, Bernard Rudofsky, University of New Mexico Press.
With a similar multi-cultural view, and of great interest and authority,
Dwellings, Paul Oliver, Phaidon.

[sheilmolson]

Thank you for giving the information. I would really like to read the books on handmade houses as well as I would also like to follow the steps given in the book. Actually, I am currently doing the course of architecture and it would be easy for me to work on it.