Lloyd Kahn is a natural builder and writer.
In the mid-60s, Lloyd Kahn quit his job in the insurance business and began working as a carpenter, first building post and beam houses, then geodesic domes. In 1968, he became the shelter editor of The Whole Earth Catalog, which led him to publish two books on dome building and then, in 1973, the book Shelter (which went on to sell 270,000 copies). Lloyd’s been writing ever since. In his latest book, The Half-Acre Homestead, he for the first time covers his own work, and that of his wife Lesley, in building a house and creating a garden in the seaside town of Bolinas over a 46-year period.