Books About Houses
The following is a list of books that may interest you:
Bad Move – Linwood Barclay (Read this first if you ever had the urge to do away with your less-than-talented Texas builder . . .)
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
At Home – Bill Bryson
A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder– Michael Pollan
Poetics of Space – Gaston Bachelard
Experiencing Architecture – Steen Eiler Rasmussen
The Ten Books on Architecture – Vitruvius Polli
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction – Christopher Alexander
The Timeless Way of Building – Christopher Alexander
The Production of Houses – Christopher Alexander
Home: A Short History of an Idea – Witold Rybczynski
House As a Mirror of Self: Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home – Clare Cooper Marcus
House Thinking: A Room-by-Room Look at How We Live – Winifred Gallagher
Tiny Houses – Lester Walker
A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
Books by Christopher Alexander
Home: American Writers Remember Rooms of their Own, Sharon and Steve Fiffer
Thoughts of Home: Reflections on Families, Houses, and Homelands, Elaine Greene
The Experience of Place: A New Way of Looking At and Dealing with Our Radically Changing Cities and Countryside, Tony Hiss
A Place Called Home: Twenty Writing Women Remember, Mickey Pearlman
Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values, Yi-Fu Tuan
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, Janine Benyus
Vaastu: The Indian Art of Placement, Rohit Arya
Vastu Living: Creating a Home for the Soul, Kathleen Cox
An Introduction to Vaastu Shastra, P.N. Ramachandra
The Vaastu Workbook, Talavane Krishna, M.D.
The Practical Encyclopedia of Feng Shui, Gill Hale
Feng Shui Made Easy: Designing Your Life with the Ancient Art of Placement, William Spear
Feng Shui: Step by Step, T. Raphael Simons
Feng Shui: Arranging Your Home to Change Your Life, Kirsten M. Lagatree
Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui, Karen Kingtson
Dwelling in Possibility: Searching for the Soul of Shelter, Howard Mansfield
Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild, Lyanda Lynn Haupt
The Forgotten Room, Lincoln Child
House, Tracy Kidder
