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    612-822-4611

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Handmade Utopia: Back-To-The-Land Architecture in Northern California

Handmade Utopia: Back-To-The-Land Architecture in Northern California

Kramer, David Jacob
Schmelling, Michael
Anders, Jentri

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General ArchitectureRegional Architecture

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ISBN10: 1636812295
ISBN13: 9781636812298
Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
Published: Sep 1 2026
Pages: 496
Weight: 4.55
Height: 1.40 Width: 8.80 Depth: 11.80
Language: English

A compendium of unseen folk architecture and a cultural history of 1960s NorCal utopianism

Published with Edition Patrick Frey.

Half a century ago, a legion of young idealists dropped out of society and went back to the land, creating a patchwork of utopian communes across Northern California. Handmade Utopia: Back-to-the-Land Architecture in Northern California tracks down the rogue souls still committed to this way of life, capturing their handbuilt, otherworldly residences alongside the stories of how they came to be--at what is now the tail end of one generation's grand social experiment. Handmade Utopia travels the length of Northern California, which formed the epicenter of the movement, journeying down hidden dirt roads and deep into redwood forests to discover handmade homes kept hidden for decades. Michael Schmelling's photography documents how these structures appear today and David Jacob Kramer's oral histories detail how they came to be, and are presented alongside a plethora of archival materials.

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