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A Place of My Own recounts his two-and-a-half-year journey of discovery in an absorbing narrative that deftly weaves the day-to-day work of design and building—from siting to blueprint, from the pouring of foundations to finish carpentry—with reflections on everything from the power of place to shape our lives to the question of what ...
A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder was Michael Pollan's second book, after Second Nature: A Gardener's Education (1991). In 2008 it was re-released and re-titled as A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams.. The book begins by outlining how Pollan reached the decision to build a "writer's house" himself.
30 de dic. de 2008 · With this updated edition of his earlier book A Place of My Own, readers can revisit the inspired, intelligent, and often hilarious story of Pollan's realization of a room of his own— a small, wooden hut, his "shelter for daydreams"—built with his admittedly unhandy hands.
4 de mar. de 1997 · In A Place of My Own, Michael Pollan builds a writing hut. Technically, he hires an architect to design a writing hut and then he hires a carpenter to help him build it. Over the course of the book, he talks about architecture, postmodernism, the philosophical meaning of windows, and more.
With this updated edition of his earlier book A Place of My Own, readers can revisit the inspired, intelligent, and often hilarious story of Pollan’s realization of a room of his own — a small, wooden hut, his “shelter for daydreams” — built with his admittedly unhandy hands.
A Place of My Own is the biography of a building. In a sense it is the biography of every building, but happens to dwell on one in particular: the not-so-primitive hut I built in the woods behind my house in New England, as a place to read and write and daydream. This is not a famous or
6 de mar. de 2013 · Books. A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams. Michael Pollan. Penguin, Mar 6, 2013 - Biography & Autobiography - 352 pages. A captivating personal inquiry into the art of...
