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Builders of the Pacific Coast
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A unique style of carpentry has developed over the past 40 years along the west coast of North America. This book, by Home Work author Lloyd Kahn, features photos and interviews with builders from San Francisco to Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Many of the builders shown here got started in the counter-cultural era of the '60s and '70s and their work has never been shown in books or magazine articles.

From unique homesteads in Mendocino and Humboldt counties, to communities of self-built shelters on small islands in the Straits of Georgia, to charming beach-front houses on the "Wild Coast" of Vancouver Island, these structures and their creators are concepts from the '60s that worked.

As in the author's previous books Shelter and Home Work, there are three featured builders: Lloyd House, master craftsman and designer who has created a series of unique homes on a small island; Bruce Atkey, creator of a number of houses and lodges built of hand-split cedar on the Wild Coast, and Sun Ray Kelley, barefoot builder tuned into nature, who has designed and built wildly imaginative structures in Washington and California. In addition, there are sculptural buildings of driftwood, homes that are beautiful as well as practical, live-aboard boats, and examples of stunning architectural design.