Woodstock Handmade Houses
Haney, Robert and David Ballantine and Jonathan Elliott (Photog.). Woodstock Handmade Houses. Ballantine Books, 1978 (4th Printing). Softbound. In 1973, Art Boericke and Barry Shapiro's Handmade Houses: A Guide to the Woodbutcher's Art hit the shelves, and Haney and Ballantine's Catskills-focused book, first published a year later, rode the wave of that success while also capitalizing on the countercultural cred still emanating from the 1969 music festival. '"Woodstock" became a word people used when they talked about imagination and self-sufficiency and getting together with your environment,' the authors write in the preface. '. . . In making this book we drove up many dead-end, washed-out roads and hiked farther on when they pinched out in places where "contractor" is a discouraging word.' A wonderful record of some of the folk architecture that inspired the hippie modernist aesthetic, this lovingly photographed book highlights materials and processes ranging from rough lumber to cob to hand-quarried bluestone to repurposed churches and barns.
