Born in 1935, Lloyd Kahn is a former editor of 1960s magazine The Whole Earth Catalog. As a free-thinker influenced by Buckminster Fuller, green architectural movements and counter-cultural idealism, he became the founding editor-in-chief of his own imprint, Shelter Publications, Inc., to encourage and celebrate eco-friendly and non-conformist homes. Along with books such as Shelter (1973) and HomeWork (2004), he published numerous titles pertaining to physical fitness and featured many builders and carpenters from Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands in Builders of the Pacific Coast (Shelter 2008), a photo-essay about ingenious, eco-friendly experimentalism in West Coast building styles and dwellings with mostly "hippie-style"; contemporary architecture. Kahn has recently published Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter: Scaling Back in the 21st Century (Shelter $26.95). He continues to surf, paddleboard, and skateboard (longboard) in his late seventies.

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[BCBW 2012]