Home Work: About the Author -
Part 2
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1969
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1969 Got job coordinating building of 17 domes at hippie high school in Santa Cruz mountains. Experimented with geodesic domes of plywood, aluminum, sprayed foam, vinyl. Kids built own domes and lived in them. School became focus of media attention.
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1969
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Left: First Whole earth Catalog
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Right: Domebook 2
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1969–1970 Worked as Shelter editor for Whole Earth Catalog.
1970 First book published, Domebook One.
1971 Published Domebook 2 — sold 175,000 copies and I was in publishing business.
1971 Bought half-acre lot small Northern California coastal town, built shake-covered geodesic dome — featured in Life magazine.
| 1972 Decided domes didn’t work, took Domebook 2 out of print, disassembled and sold dome. Went in search of other (non-dome) ways to build — across U.S.A., Ireland, England — and Shelter (1973) was result.
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1974
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1974 Built stud-frame house using recycled lumber, doors, windows. Goal was to get shelter up quickly and have it be aesthetic and practical. Works great for us. Relief somehow to discover old ways can work best.
’80s, ’90s Published series of fitness books, including Stretching by Bob Anderson.
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| 34 years later: In 1994 visited sod-roofed house built in 1960 (see pic on page 242) and met a happy trio living there: Jeff, Miranda, and baby Jesse |
2002–2004 Got back into the shelter (publishing) business. Operate out of recycled-lumber production studio in midst of vegetable garden, hooked into whole wide world via four Macintoshes.
I continue to travel and hunt for interesting shelter, maintaining layman’s viewpoint; I love doing it!
Cameras
- Olympus OM-1s, full set of lenses
- Minox GT 35mm/ƒ2.8 Leitz fixed lens
- Canon EOS A2E, 28–200 mm Tamron zoom
- Fujifilm 4700 digital 4.3 megapixel, incredible little camera
- Nikon 5700, 5.0 megapixel, 35–280 zoom
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