Handmade Houses takes us on a delightful journey back to the heady and rebellious days of the 1960s and ’70s, when green design—the world of reduce, reuse, and recycle—was sired. Its author, Richard ...

Home, it’s said, is that place where your soul finds its solace. No wonder, then, that when it comes to some of America’s most inspired souls — artists and craftsmen, all — the walls, the roof, even ...

Artists and bohemians from Woodstock’s Byrdcliffe and Maverick arts and crafts colonies in the early 1900s inspired a second wave of handmade home builders in the 1970s. The Maverick Concert Hall, ...

Henry Petroski really likes his summer house. It's a two-bedroom cedar-shingle on the Kennebec River in Maine, a woodsy getaway built by a painstaking do-it-yourselfer in the 1950s. But to the house's ...