![]() ![]() Besides tending the organic gardens (and dozens of free-range chickens), Creed is a natural dyer, quilter, sourdough bread-maker and believer in the “value of actually working, not just trying to figure out how not to work”. ![]() ![]() His home is only a small part of his half-acre homestead where he and his wife Lesley Creed believe in doing things for yourself, when possible. Kahn’s enthusiasm for shelter extends to “building every place I’ve ever lived”, including his current home which started as a dome and is now a more traditional shelter capped by a 30-foot-tall hexagonal tower (the only remnant of the dome). The book that put him on the map as a publisher (*) was “ Shelter”, an international survey of alternative housing that is still in print over 4 decades later. He got his start in publishing when Stewart Brand made him the shelter editor for the Whole Earth Catalog. In the seventies he was a poster child of the geodesic dome (he published Domebook One and Two and he and his dome home were featured in Life magazine). At 80 years old, Lloyd Kahn is an icon of alternative housing. ![]()
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