


Some of these homes are in the country, some in small towns, and some in large cities. Arising from the Back to the Land movement of the late 1960’s, ‘Shelter’ was essentially a scrapbook of photos, drawings, stories and anecdotes focusing on how people around the world (but mostly the US) created their own shelter.

The underlying theme with Shelter's books, which has continued for over 40 years, is that it's possible for you to create your own home with your own hands, using natural materials. Shelter Press (2004) ‘Shelter’ was a book that changed many people’s lives. For example, many of the homes in Home Work were inspired by Shelter. Each of these books has over 1,000 photos, and each 2-page spread is carefully laid out with respect to balance of graphics and clarity of information.Ī running theme with them is that people have been inspired by one book to build their own home, and this will be included in a subsequent book. The series, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include Shelter, Shelter II (1978), Home Work (2004), Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008), Tiny Homes (2012), and Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). This is the seventh in a series of highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. Some 75 builders share their knowledge of building and design, with artistic, practical, and/or economical homes in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, France, Germany, Spain, New Zealand and Lithuania. From the publishers of a popular series of building books comes Small Homes, which is highly relevant for these times.
