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Handmade Houses by Art Boericke & Barry Shapiro ➤ Scrimshaw Press, 1973 4th Printing
Handmade Houses: A Guide to the Woodbutcher's Art by Art Boericke & Barry Shapiro Scrimshaw Press, 1973 4th Printing
Title: Handmade Houses: A Guide to the Woodbutcher's Art
Author: Art Boericke & Barry Shapiro
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Scrimshaw Press, 1973
Edition: 4th Printing
ISBN 10: 0912020008
Size: 8.75 X 9.75 * unpaginated ~95 pp with color plates
Synopsis: From the Jacket: IF YOU HAVE EVER thought about getting it all together-time, energy, land and materials-to build something of your very own, this book may entice you to take the fatal step. The author (Boericke) and the photographer (Shapiro) have traveled for years to the ends of many a rural road in order to visit and record the best owner-built structures they could. We think that you'll agree that their efforts were well-rewarded.
Now, our words and images will not tell you what to build nor how to build it. There are plenty of books for that. We hope that the book will show you some neat solutions to old problems, with gorgeous embellishments, and will tell you - if you'll look-that you needn't be a titan of carpentry in order to have a sprightly little outbuilding or a snug main house. Please pause and enjoy.
IF YOU HAVE EVER thought about getting it all together-time, energy, land and materials-to build something of your very own, this book may entice you to take the fatal step. The author (Boericke) and the photographer (Shapiro) have traveled for years to the ends of many a rural road in order to visit and record the best owner-built structures they could. We think that you'll agree that their efforts were well-rewarded.
Now, our words and images will not tell you what to build nor how to build it. There are plenty of books for that. We hope that the book will show you some neat solutions to old problems, with gorgeous embellishments, and will tell you - if you'll look-that you needn't be a titan of carpentry in order to have a sprightly little outbuilding or a snug main house. Please pause and enjoy.
Foreword: FOR SOME YEARS we have heard the extravagant technological promise of housing at low cost. It has never come to pass. The answer to low cost housing, it seems to me, is to make a break with a "standard of living" that makes us slaves to centralized decision-making and control, to an economy whose values are the magnitude of production and consumption. The dollar is not a reasonable measure of the quality of life or the quality of place. Yet most of us are still children of that dollar, and of the institutions we grew up in-we are conditioned to their ways. For most of us have grown up sharing little real experience or work. We have few rituals that celebrate our unity of body, mind and spirit. We are trying to find our way back into the earth family and there are few guides to show the way.
Thus, one of our tasks is to repair the rift between our "objective" and our "subjective" selves, to unite the division between the inner and outer man, a division nurtured by the machine metaphor, by the separation of one's work from one's identity. A division aided by fragmentation of our time, and by the physical settings that support this split. Getting myself together started with getting my time and space into one place, with creating the possibility and essential conditions for that wholeness.
This day I chiseled four mortise joints to receive the tenoned posts that will be the frame of our sauna. In fourteen years of architectural practice I never designed a mortise and tenon joint because it was too much handwork and at carpenter's wages, far too expensive. So now I am learning to make them myself.
It is taking me a long time to get over the guilt of spending days hard at work learning to do the things I wasn't trained to do. It is taking a long time to accept simple satisfaction of doing what I am doing, living in the present.
Sim Van der Ryn,
The School of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley
Overall Condition: Very good: The book does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. There is no obvious damage to the cover the dust jacket (if applicable) is included for hard covers. There are no missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. It may have very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover as well as very minimal wear and tear; see images.
Secure shipping bubble-wrapped in a new box/mailer.
2026--U.S. shipping for this (Two Pounds Media Mail) is $5.22 with tracking.
Multiple items will be combined for the lowest shipping price.
International Shipping cost is based on the destination so inquire before buying. Mobile users must scroll to the bottom and click on 'use desktop site' to bring up the Ask a Question link which sends me an email.
(PLEASE CONTACT ME BEFORE MAKING ANY PAYMENT FROM OUTSIDE THE U.S.)
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Just about all the books are USED books. Some have been used more gently than others. Some have been in libraries and have typical library extras. Some are so old and/or interesting that they are being offered for the sake of preservation regardless of the condition they are in. If the condition of the book is very important to you, please feel free to click the 'Ask seller a question' link and I will tell you more.
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Title: Handmade Houses: A Guide to the Woodbutcher's Art
Author: Art Boericke & Barry Shapiro
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Scrimshaw Press, 1973
Edition: 4th Printing
ISBN 10: 0912020008
Size: 8.75 X 9.75 * unpaginated ~95 pp with color plates
Synopsis: From the Jacket: IF YOU HAVE EVER thought about getting it all together-time, energy, land and materials-to build something of your very own, this book may entice you to take the fatal step. The author (Boericke) and the photographer (Shapiro) have traveled for years to the ends of many a rural road in order to visit and record the best owner-built structures they could. We think that you'll agree that their efforts were well-rewarded.
Now, our words and images will not tell you what to build nor how to build it. There are plenty of books for that. We hope that the book will show you some neat solutions to old problems, with gorgeous embellishments, and will tell you - if you'll look-that you needn't be a titan of carpentry in order to have a sprightly little outbuilding or a snug main house. Please pause and enjoy.
IF YOU HAVE EVER thought about getting it all together-time, energy, land and materials-to build something of your very own, this book may entice you to take the fatal step. The author (Boericke) and the photographer (Shapiro) have traveled for years to the ends of many a rural road in order to visit and record the best owner-built structures they could. We think that you'll agree that their efforts were well-rewarded.
Now, our words and images will not tell you what to build nor how to build it. There are plenty of books for that. We hope that the book will show you some neat solutions to old problems, with gorgeous embellishments, and will tell you - if you'll look-that you needn't be a titan of carpentry in order to have a sprightly little outbuilding or a snug main house. Please pause and enjoy.
Foreword: FOR SOME YEARS we have heard the extravagant technological promise of housing at low cost. It has never come to pass. The answer to low cost housing, it seems to me, is to make a break with a "standard of living" that makes us slaves to centralized decision-making and control, to an economy whose values are the magnitude of production and consumption. The dollar is not a reasonable measure of the quality of life or the quality of place. Yet most of us are still children of that dollar, and of the institutions we grew up in-we are conditioned to their ways. For most of us have grown up sharing little real experience or work. We have few rituals that celebrate our unity of body, mind and spirit. We are trying to find our way back into the earth family and there are few guides to show the way.
Thus, one of our tasks is to repair the rift between our "objective" and our "subjective" selves, to unite the division between the inner and outer man, a division nurtured by the machine metaphor, by the separation of one's work from one's identity. A division aided by fragmentation of our time, and by the physical settings that support this split. Getting myself together started with getting my time and space into one place, with creating the possibility and essential conditions for that wholeness.
This day I chiseled four mortise joints to receive the tenoned posts that will be the frame of our sauna. In fourteen years of architectural practice I never designed a mortise and tenon joint because it was too much handwork and at carpenter's wages, far too expensive. So now I am learning to make them myself.
It is taking me a long time to get over the guilt of spending days hard at work learning to do the things I wasn't trained to do. It is taking a long time to accept simple satisfaction of doing what I am doing, living in the present.
Sim Van der Ryn,
The School of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley
Overall Condition: Very good: The book does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. There is no obvious damage to the cover the dust jacket (if applicable) is included for hard covers. There are no missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. It may have very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover as well as very minimal wear and tear; see images.
Secure shipping bubble-wrapped in a new box/mailer.
2026--U.S. shipping for this (Two Pounds Media Mail) is $5.22 with tracking.
Multiple items will be combined for the lowest shipping price.
International Shipping cost is based on the destination so inquire before buying. Mobile users must scroll to the bottom and click on 'use desktop site' to bring up the Ask a Question link which sends me an email.
(PLEASE CONTACT ME BEFORE MAKING ANY PAYMENT FROM OUTSIDE THE U.S.)
==========================================================================================================================
Just about all the books are USED books. Some have been used more gently than others. Some have been in libraries and have typical library extras. Some are so old and/or interesting that they are being offered for the sake of preservation regardless of the condition they are in. If the condition of the book is very important to you, please feel free to click the 'Ask seller a question' link and I will tell you more.
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