Whole Body Library / lineage field guide
Shelter
Lloyd Kahn · 1973
A handmade-building and shelter field guide from the Whole Earth orbit.
Why it belongs
Design lineage for dense, practical, humane catalog pages — and for thinking about habitat as body input.
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Read the reference first; buy only if it answers a real question for your body or practice.
Why read it
A field guide to shelter that feels spiritually close to WBC: the human body always lives somewhere, and the somewhere matters.
Key idea
Practical knowledge can be beautiful when it respects use.
Try this
Look at one room as shelter, not decor: what bodily actions does it invite or forbid?
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- Catalog design inspiration
- Movement environment and floor-life context
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- Building content is inspiration, not WBC domain authority
- Rights for images require care
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