The house featured in these photos is the last in a line of 25 to 30 or so houses I have built over the years. Most, as a job for other people, were of standard what I call straight line construction. They were a lot faster to build, a lot more expensive and in general completely boring and uninviting structures, the results of the pressures of modern commercial house building.  I had some interesting jobs: my very first house was another like the one featured here but was all stone, 400 tons of it in fact.    I did like working with a type of kit house package in Alaska, precision pre cut cedar logs.  At least they were of solid sweet smelling wood, and in a remote place  where the nearest builders’ supply was a long way off they had their advantages.  

      But overall my experience with building convinced me that there must be a better way.  This led me to a method that is far cheaper, much easier from a technical point of view, and infinitely more aesthetic to me at least, than the convention of straight lines, exact edges and angles, the precision building of commercialism.   Free form construction using approximate natural symmetry, using natural materials such as mud, rock and round logs.  Such houses seem much easier to construct in many ways and do not require training in assembly methods, plan interpretation and layout.  They are still quite a challenge, however, to the