Bibliography: House themes and powers: living and imagining
in the archetype
Written houses
Louise Erdrich 2003 The painted drum The New Yorker
Virginia Woolf To the lighthouse
Colette 2002 My mother's house and Sido
Farrer, Strauss and Giraux
Ursula Le Guin 1985 Always coming home University
of California
Le Guin took a piece of land she knew in childhood and
imagined a culture that would build and live well on it 20,000 years in
the future.
Alice Notley Mysteries of small houses
Gaston Bachelard The Poetics of Space
Experimental documentary
Trinh T. Minh-ha 1985 Naked Spaces: Living
is Round 135 minutes, color, VHS/16mm/DVD available from Women
make Movies in NY
Shot with stunning elegance and clarity, NAKED SPACES
explores the rhythm and ritual of life in the rural environments of six
West African countries (Mauritania, Mali, Burkino Faso, Togo, Benin and
Senegal). The nonlinear structure of NAKED SPACES challenges the traditions
of ethnographic filmmaking, while sensuous sights and sounds lead the viewer
on a poetic journey to the most inaccessible parts of the African continent,
the private interaction of people in their living spaces.
Architecture
Christopher Alexander 1977 A pattern language: towns,
buildings, construction
Christopher Alexander The nature of order (4 volumes)
Michael Benedikt "Stanley Saitowitz' Transvaal House"
http://www.ar.utexas.edu/center/benedikt_articles/saitowitz.htr
Michael Benedikt "The work of Rob Quigley" http://www.ar.utexas.edu/center/benedikt_articles/quigley.htr
Alexander is the classical exponent of embodiment in architecture.
The Benedikt papers are gorgeous, lucid, environmentally passionate things.
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