# Patrick Hutchison: Into the woods.

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Podcast: [A is for Architecture Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-is-for-architecture-podcast-4885985)
Published: 2026-01-08T22:00:01+00:00
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## Resource

For the first episode of 2026 for the A is for Architecture Podcast, we’re starting slow and steady – but rather inspiringly I think - with Patrick Hutchison, a builder. Patrick’s very recent book, Cabin: Into the Woods with a Clueless Craftsman , which he published with Harper Collins in November 2025, tells the story of his journey from copywriter to carpenter and now, bestselling author and carpenter, via the renovation – the discovery, in a manner - of a small cabin in the woods. It’s an elegant story indeed, which beyond a sort-of practical how-to for other itchy-footed office-jockeys, is one tangentially rooted in an American romance and myth – from indigenous peoples, Thoreau, pioneers and non-conformists. Through the cabin and through the book, Patrick describes his journey of discovery, at once a DIY adventure story and a meditation on how to find meaning, community and identity through making, through building and through acts of ordinary creation. Architecture has long been allured by the idea of the homes of our forebears, the original dwelling, the cabin in the woods. The preference, as Gombrich put it, for the primitive. But finding a gap in modernity’s matrix? That’s the dream, isn’t it? Patrick can be found on his personal website , on Instagram and LinkedIn . The book is linked above, and has been reviewed everywhere , with Patrick having done quite a bit of TV about it too. Have a wander on the internet and you’ll probably find him. + Music credits: ⁠Bruno Gillick

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