All Their Own: People and the Places They Build

by Jan Wampler

Photographs and describes the unconventional, highly imaginative homes that ordinary people from the United States and British Columbia have built out of such materials as driftwood, concrete, hand-dried bricks, and bottles

Genres: Architecture

206 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

Reviews

[Ruth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loaded with BW photos of people who built and built and built, with their own hands. Marvelous, fantistic structures out of bottles, tiles, refrigerators, automobile parts, tiles, stones, even one using 100,000 newspapers... Nailed, glued, mortared, excavated. Houses like small cathedrals. Houses buried in hand-painted pinwheels. Houses with battlements, arches, towers, balconies. It makes me groan when I think about what this book would be like in color.

[Tentatively, Convenience · Rating 5 out of 5]

Alright, at this point, I gave this bk a 5 star review just because my love for 'outsider architecture' runs so deep & my interest in corporate architecture runs so shallow - In other words, this a good bk but the subject is even better than the bk. Give me a person who builds their own wonderland out of whatever materials are at hand anyday over rich spoiled architects in big firms.