Documents Tagged ‘homesteading’


Urban farms in the East Bay today

Archive Entry Date: c. 2020

A list of contemporary urban farms in the East Bay

The Integral Urban House: Then and Now

Archive Entry Date: 6/1/2015

How the Integral Urban House met its demise

The Integral Urban Neighborhood

Archive Entry Date: c. 1979

From the visionaries behind the IUH: how to create an integral urban neighborhood

Some Other Animals for Urban Backyards

Archive Entry Date: c. 1979

A book excerpt teaches the burgeoning homesteader how to raise bees and fish in their backyard

Introduction to The Integral Urban House

Archive Entry Date: c. 1979

Sim Van der Ryn's introduction to the instruction manual and guide to the Integral Urban House

Beginnings: why an integral urban house?

Archive Entry Date: c. 1979

Amidst a polluted and industrialized world, a new form of ecological living emerged

The Ultimate City Garden

Archive Entry Date: 1978

The Time-Life Gardening Yearbook covered daily life at the IUH in glowing color

City Lot a Test in Creative Living

Archive Entry Date: 12/08/1977

A local Illinois paper reported on the Integral Urban House, 2,000 miles away from Berkeley

Urban Homesteading: the Integral Urban House

Archive Entry Date: 11/1976

Mother Earth News offered sympathetic and detailed coverage of the IUH

Public tour in front of the house’s entrance

Archive Entry Date: c. 1975

Crowds came from far and wide to learn about the impressive IUH

Public tour at the chicken coops

Archive Entry Date: c. 1975

People of all ages flocked to see the resident chickens and rabbits at the IUH

People around a table, watching a wood-carving demonstration

Archive Entry Date: c. 1975

Men and women dressed in everyday clothes, ready to learn new skills

An Organic House Grows in Berkeley

Archive Entry Date: 3/4/1975

The Daily Cal chronicled, skeptically, the construction of the Integral Urban House

The Integral Urban House under construction

Archive Entry Date: c. 1975

A view of the lush backyard garden and half-finished Integral Urban House

The shop in the former garage

Archive Entry Date: c. 1975

A look inside the shop, full of industrial machinery and power tools

Color photos of the Integral Urban House, December 1973

Archive Entry Date: 12/1973

Beautiful photos paint a vivid picture of the IUH's quaint appearance

Self-Guided Tour to the Integral Urban House

Archive Entry Date: c. 1973

Helga Olkowski's self-guided tour booklet for the curious urban homesteader

Abstract of Proposal to Build an Ecotectural House

Archive Entry Date: 11/30/1972

The origins of the IUH — Sim Van der Ryn's proposal for an "ecotectural" house