Shelter, Energy & Eco-Design

If you’ve read some of the impressive ‘art builder’ books by Lloyd Kahn, such as Builders of the Pacific Coast, Small Homes, and Tiny Homes, you’ll dig this view into the lovely details of the home, studio, workshop, garden, and life that he has built with his partner.

For Fuller, nature is the most exquisite technology we know; and what underlies all of his work is the quest to uncover natures fundamental principlesin order to foster their manifestation as a pattern integrity 'for successfully regenerating all life aboard our planetary spaceship.'" Jaime Lawrence Snyder,

Named a best book of 2019 by the American Society of Landscape Architect’s The Dirt, Design with Nature Now celebrates the 50th anniversary of Ian McHarg’s seminal book Design with Nature, which set forth a new vision for regional planning using natural systems.

From the founder of the Instagram feed @TinyHouse, which boasts 448k Instagram followers, comes a small, chunky inspiration book filled with photographs of the smallest abodes--from vans and boats to tree houses and cabins.

An inspiring, lavishly illustrated book about how artist Tom Gottsleben and his wife, Patty Livingston, spent years building and living in a 5-story spiral house made of stone Architects, landscape designers, and artists who explore metaphysical ideas in their work will be drawn to this singular approach to architecture and design Why was an a

The imperative to reduce our carbon footprint and focus on renewable energy is having a profound impact on our daily lives and the way we think about living spaces.

This large-format and generously illustrated book captures the visionary approach to the land embraced in designs for The Sea Ranch, the planned community that has become a touchstone of 1960s West Coast modernism.