In the photo-packed new volume Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter, Shelter Publications founder and green architecture pioneer Lloyd Kahn adds another to his series of alternative housing overviews, which began with 1973's Shelter, and continued in 2004's HomeWork: Handbuilt Shelter and 2008's Builders of the Pacific Coast. In it, the one-time shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog celebrates hand-built houses measuring 500 square feet or fewer, part of a "growing tiny house movement all over the world" that Kahn and company have been monitoring for two years, a movement that promises "a 180 degree turn from increasing consumption" and "a measure of freedom and independence" for owner-builders. Here, Shelter shares a few of the 1,300 images included in Tiny Homes, out on January 24.
