- Master builder Louie Frazier's Japanese-style pole house in Northern California, reachable on a 500-foot cable across a river
- Ian MacLeod's handbuilt stone house in South Africa, where baboons jump on the roof at night
- Ma Page's bottle house in the Nevada desert
- Artist Michael Kahn's semi-subterranean sculptural village in Arizona
- Bill and Athena Steen's strawbale houses
- Ianto Evans' cob houses in Oregon
- The Archlibre group of countercultural builders in the French Pyrenees
- Bill Coperthwaite's spectacular 3-story yurt in the Maine woods
- Bill Castle's finely-crafted log home and sauna in the NY Appalachians
- A commune in the Tennessee mountains
- The "Flying Concrete" brothers in Mexico and their far-out sculptural structures
- Barns in California, Washington, and Connecticut
- Photo-essays of Lloyd Kahn's trips to Nevada, the Mississippi Delta, Costa Rica, Nova Scotia, and Baja California
- Photos of buildings all over the world by photographers Yoshio Komatsu and Kevin Kelly + more, lots more....
Shelter, it turns out, had a major influence on builders, and included are buildings our 1973 book inspired, so this is truly a sequel.
