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Lydia Doleman
Lydia Doleman is a natural builder and activist
currently practicing in Portland, Or. She has been building since
she first stole her sister’s legos at the age of three. For the last
twelve years her work has been a culminating point for
ecology, art and social justice.
Flying Hammer Productions is her natural building construction company focused on pushing the bounds of affordable and energy efficient housing, training people and communities in various building skills and infusing the dreary urban fabric with structures that reflect beauty, sustainability and community. You can usually find her in the mud, wrestling straw bales, laughing or just flying around by the seat of her pants.... "The natural building movement is crucial to human empowerment and democratizing the social and physical architecture that we inhabit. In a fragmented and dysfunctional world we can only reconnect people and places by creating structures that directly reflect localized, authentic patterns of living. Buildings have the capacity to equalize people or segregate them. The choices made in building with local and natural materials help enhance the healthy human patterns that elevate society and individuals." |
Carey Lien
A natural builder and carpenter whose has been involved in such recent
projects as the community arts garage in Portland, OR to building a straw
bale cabin on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota to a
cob community/library in Matagalpa, Nicaragua. Carey is dedicated to
developing and teaching building practices accessible to people of all
incomes and environments.
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