Irish thatched cottage

In the late '60s -early-'70s I spent 5 years building geodesic domes, and published Domebook 2. By the time it sold 170,000 copies, I'd concluded that domes didn't work. That's a pretty big audience, I figured I should show all those reader other ways of building. I took off with two Nikons and a backpack and shot photos in Ireland, the UK, Canada, and the US. After struggling for so long with plastics and other new building materials, I was thrilled to discover the world of natural materials. Here, on the west coast of Ireland, is a thatched stone cottage. Stones were cleared from the field and used for the fences, and walls of the house and outbuildings. Grain was grown in the fields, and the stalks used to thatch the roof. Everything looked right (the haystacks were shaped like the house). The book Shelter (1973) resulted from that trip.
Since I'm now working on a book on tiny houses, I took a bunch of quick and dirty pictures (with my pocket camera) of photos in Shelter, where we were advocating tiny houses 37 years ago, and will post a few. Sorry for the poor quality of pics, but you'll get the idea.