Interior of 30′-diameter geodesic dome built by Lloyd Kahn in 1972 in Northern California. Struts are 2″ × 3″ Douglas fir; paneling is 1″ × 6″ Douglas fir recycled subflooring from Treasure Island Navy barracks. Photo by Lloyd Kahn
Ruth Kneass decorated this little model and brought it to my exhibit of driftwood beach shack photos on Saturday. It was filled with marzipan cookies.
In the background is one of the photos in the exhibit.
Interior of house built by Lloyd Kahn, Burns Creek, Big Sur, California, in 1967–68 Photo by Lloyd Kahn
We’ll be selling our books at The Maker Faire in San Mateo, Calif., in May, and we decided to build a model tiny home for display. Our friend Tom agreed to make the model. It turned out that he got into it and spent over a month (not full time) on the project. He said he could have built the full-size building in the same amount of time. It’s put together with glue. Window shutters and doors open on hinges.
The full size building is 10′ × 16′, scale here is 1 inch = 1 foot, so this is 10″ wide, 16″ long. Single wall construction (no studs).
Materials:
Siding: redwood; bats: oak
Shakes: cedar
Ridge beam and shutters: redwood
Door: walnut
Door and window trim: oakIt’s a little beauty.
I’m doing my first ever photo exhibit, opening this Saturday at the Bolinas Museum. It’s part of a 2-month-long exhibit on the subject of makeshift architecture, and features artists Jay Nelson, Whiting Tennis, and Eirik Johnson, along with my photos of driftwood beach shacks along the northern California coast.
Rick Gordon has processed and printed 24 14″×18″ prints and printed them here on our new Epson Stylus Pro 4900 inkjet printer. They look pretty darn good! The ingenuity of anonymous beachcomber artists.
The opening is this Saturday, April 2nd. At 2 PM, I’ll talk a bit about my background and our 46 years of publishing books on building and fitness; at 3 PM, there’s a reception.
Bolinas Museum
48 Wharf Road
Bolinas, California 94924
www.bolinasmuseum.org
No idea what this is. It’s maybe 40′ tall, hexagonal, log construction with tight joints. I’ve never seen any sign of habitation. It’s on a beautiful, sunny, south-facing piece of land with lichen-covered rocks right above the (today at least) crashing waves. On Calif. Highway One, near Gualala.
Lloyd Kahn splitting shakes with a froe from redwood logs salvaged from a Northern California beach in the early ’70s. Photo by Billy Cummings
There is a festival of architecture in Scotland now, sponsored by the Fife Contemporary Arts Center. It’s called “Shelters,” and features an entire room exhibiting our work, with photo and page blowups, and our building books on tables (above). It’s open now at the Kircaldy Galleries (Kircaldy is about 12 miles north of Edinburgh, on the east coast of Scotland) and runs through June 5, 2016.
I’ll be doing a slide show presentation on May 10th, at Kircaldy Galleries, titled “50 Years of Natural Building,” chronicling our building books from Shelter in 1973 up to the present.
Jay’s cabin, on little island near Seattle, is partly underground, with lots of south-facing windows, a garden,and view of lake. Photo by Yogan, Summer, 2015
John’s house on Lesquiti Island, BC, Canada. Photo by Yogan, Summer, 2015
Dodge gypsy wagon built by French carpenters Yogan and Menthe in Humboldt County, Summer, 2015. It has no motor, gets pulled around with a tractor. Photo by Yogan, Summer, 2015
Via Facebook
Hello Evan,
The Gypsy traveler is something that has been on my mind for years. One day I just decided to build it. Everything is out off my mind in creation there are no plans. Never thought it would be finished, but its very close to being done. A gal from Connecticut has bought it and she plans to travel with a group of women to where only god knows. I am planning to build another one on a trailer. To me the build is the most fun and to watch people light up when they see it. Here are two photos to start, if you go to Mystical Views Facebook page you can see the whole build.
–John
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Nicely designed old home. Note the way the plane of the roof extends to form the porch roof. A stairway led to two upstairs bedrooms. There was a brick fireplace.
When I go inside places like this, I can feel the lives that were lived within.
Old homes designed like this show the cluelessness of almost all homes designed these days by architects.
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