Handmade Utopia: Back-to-the-Land Architecture in Northern California

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A compendium of unseen folk architecture and a cultural history of 1960s NorCal utopianism.   Half a century ago, a legion of young idealists dropped out of society and went “back to the land,” creating a patchwork of utopian communes across Northern California. Handmade Utopia: Back-to-the-Land Architecture in Northern California tracks down the rogue souls still committed to this way of life, capturing their handbuilt, otherworldly residences alongside the stories of how they came to be—at what is now the…