The author was born in London with a Polish father. He studied architecture at Portsmouth School of Architecture from 1966. Published Survival Scrapbook 1 Shelter in 1972. Worked on various housing schemes and taught at Hull School of Architecture in the Eighties. Was part of a self-build housing co-op in the Nineties. Interested in working class culture and especially the Plotland phenomena in the UK. Frustrated by the lack of serious documentation published he decided to do the job himself. This is the first of a series of book of photographic documentation.