CCAD Packard Library: Self-Taught, Outsider, Folk, & Visionary Art: Built Environments

Books

Le Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval
In Hauterives, Drôme, France.
The Rock Garden of Chandigarh
Nek Chand's giant sculpture garden in Chandigarh, India.

Art Preserve, John Michael Kohler Arts Center
An experimental space designed to house the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s collection of over thirty-five artist-built environments in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Coral Castle
Edward Leedskalnin's heartbroken homage to a lost love, in Miami, Florida.
Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village
Simi Valley, California.
Hartman Rock Garden
Springfield, Ohio's own quirky rock garden, created by Harry George “Ben” Hartman.
Heidelberg Project
Tyree Guyton’s community art project in Detroit, Michigan.
Loveland Castle: Chateau LaRoche
Built by Harry Andrews, by hand, on the banks of the Little Miami River near Cincinnati.
Magic Gardens
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Orange Show
An homage to the orange. Houston, Texas.
Paradise Garden
The Reverend Howard Finster's labor of love in Summerville, Georgia.
The Temple of Tolerance
An environment in Wapakoneta, Ohio.
Watts Towers
An early example, in Los Angeles
WinceWorld
Charles Wince's art-covered house in the Harrison West neighborhood of Columbus, OH.