Shelter Publications, Inc.

We wrote the book on Shelter (1973), a book on Domes (1972), and yurts, cob and green building (now)

( Free listing. Entered October, 2007 Not updated since. )

WebSite:

www.shelterpub.com

E-mail this Business Contact: Lew Lewandowski

Address:

185 Dogwood Rd Map

City, State:

Bolinas, California Zip:94924

Phone:

415-868-0280 2nd Phone: 800-307-0131

Fax:

415-868-9053

Description:

Online ordering: Yes Mail / Phone order: Yes

We published the book Shelter in 1973. It had a large section on "natural materials" - wood, stone, adobe, rammed earth, bamboo, thatch, and baled straw. In Shelter, with its 1000 photographs, we showcased builders all over the world, and encouraged people to take things into their own hands, to create their own shelter, and to do so in as eco-friendly a mode as possible. These days that's being called "green building." In 2000 we published The Septic Systems Owner's Manual; in 2004 Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter (the sequel to Shelter); in 2005, Wonderful Houses Around the World. We're now finishing The Barefoot Architect: A Manual For Green Building, by Johan van Lengen. This is the English translation of a book that has sold 200,000 copies in Latin America. And I'm now in the midst of putting together a unique book on carpenters of the Pacific Coast. I spent a year, making four trips up the coast in my truck (San Francisco to Vancouver Island, B.C.), shooting photos of stunning creative carpen

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