Handmade Utopia traces Northern Californias hand-built homes and the ideals behind them

In Handmade Utopia, David Jacob Kramer and Michael Schmelling document Northern California’s back-to-the-land architecture—improvised dwellings in redwood and salvage, geodesic echoes, and ad hoc additions—while tracing the ideals that shaped them. Published by D.A.P./Edition Patrick Frey, the book arrives September 1.