Resources: Publications

HOUSING: Related Design, Technological, Ecological, and Urban Issues

Aiken, Donald. "Frank Lloyd Wright's Solar Hemicycle Revisited: Measured Performance Following Thermal Upgrading." In Proceedings of the 17th National Passive Solar Conference. Boulder CO: American Solar Energy Society, 1992.

Aladdin Company. Aladdin Homes, Built in a Day, Catalog No. 31, 1919. Watkins Glen, NY: American Life Foundation and Study Institute, republished in 1985.

Allan, Edward and Rob Thallon. Fundamentals of Residential Construction. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002.

American Institute of Architects, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. The Design Advisor Project Book, Washington D.C.: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (see also www.designadvisor.org), no date.

Baker, Paula, Erica Elliott, and John Banta. Prescriptions for a Healthy House: A Practical Guide for Architects, Builders, and Homeowners. Santa Fe, NM: Inword Press, 1998.

Baldwin, J. Bucky Works. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.

Ball, Rick. Making Space: Design for Compact Living. Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1987.

Bemis, Albert Farwell. Evolving House, Volume II: The Economics of Shelter. Cambridge, MA: The Technology Press, MIT, 1934.

-----------. Evolving House, Volume III: Rational Design. Cambridge, MA: The Technology Press, MIT, 1936.

Calthorpe, Peter. The Next American Metropolis. Princeton: The Princeton Architectural Press, 1993. Carmody, John. Residential Windows: A Guide to New Technologies and Energy Performance. New York: Norton, 1996.

Clark, Clifford Edward, Jr. The American Family Home. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1986.

Coates, Gary J. Erik Asmussen, Architect. Stockholm: Byggförlaget, 1997.

Cofaigh, Eoin O. and John A. Olley, and J. Owen Lewis. The Climatic Dwelling: An Introduction to Climate-Responsive Residential Architecture. London: James & James, 1996.

Consumer Guide. The Complete Book of Prefabs, Kits, and Manufactured Houses. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1981.

Davis, Sam. The Architecture of Affordable Housing. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995.

Dethier, Jean, et al. Grow Your Own House: Simon Vélez and Bamboo Architecture. Weil am Rhein, Germany: Vitra Design Museum, 2000.

Davidson, Harold A. Housing Demand: Mobile, Modular, or Conventional? New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1973.

Dietz, Albert G. H. and Laurence S. Cutler, editors. Industrialized Building Systems for Hosing. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1971.

Ditto, Jerry and Lanning Stern. Eichler Homes: Design for Living. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995.

Doubilet, Susan and Daralice Boles. European Houses Now. New York: Universe Publishing, 1999.

Eason, David. The Rammed Earth House. White River Junction. VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1996.

Edminster, Ann and Sami Yassa. Efficient Wood Use in Residential Construction: A Practical Guide to Saving Wood, Money, and Forests. New York: National Resources Defense Council, 1998.

Finnimore, Brian. Houses from the Factory: System Building and the Welfare State 1942-74. London: Rivers Oram Press, 1989.

Friedman, Avi. The Grow Home. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.

Gausa, Manuel. Housing: New Alternatives, New Systems. Basel: Birkhäuser Publishers, 1998.

Graff, Raymond K., Rudolph A. Matern, and Henry Lionel Williams. The Prefabricated House: A Practical Guide for the Prospective Buyer. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947.

Grayson Trulove, James. The Smart House. New York: HarperCollins International, 2002.

Gordon, Alastair. Weekend Utopia. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001.

Greater Minnesota Housing Fund and Cermak Rhoades Architects. Building Better Neighborhoods: Creating Affordable Homes and Livable Communities. St. Paul, MN: Greater Minnesota Housing Fund, 2001.

Hayden, Dolores. The Grand Domestic Revolution, a History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1981.

-------------. Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work, and Family Life. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1984.

Hamdi, Nabeel. Housing Without Houses: Participation, Flexibility, Enablement. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991.

Herbert, Gilbert. The Dream of the Factory-Made House: Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1984.

Hough, Michael. Cities and Natural Process. London: Routledge, 1995.

Hudson River Museum. Realizations of Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright in Westchester. New York: The Hudson River Museum, 1985.

Hutchings, Jonathan F. Builder's Guide to Modular Construction. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996.

Jacobs, Jane. Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Random House, 1961.

James, Peter and Nick Thorpe. Ancient Inventions: Wonders of the Past. New York: Ballantine Books, 1994.

Jones, Tom, William Pettus, and Michael Pyatok. Good Neighbors: Affordable Family Housing. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.

Katz, Peter. New Urbanism. New York: McGraw Hill, 1994.

Koch, Carl. At Home With Tomorrow. New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1958.

Kramer, J. J., Linda Stone, and Andrew Roy Addkison. Buyer's Guide to Kit Homes: You Can Still Afford the House of Your Dreams. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1981.

Kronenburg, Robert, ed. Transportable Environments; Theory, Context, Design and Technology. London: E & FN Spon, 1998.

Laporte, Robert. Mooseprints: A Holistic Home Building Guide. Santa Fe, NM: Natural Home Building Center, 1993.

Laurie, Ian, ed. Nature in Cities. New York: John Wiley, 1979.

Lstiburek, Joseph. Builder's Guide to Cold Climates: Details for Design and Construction. Newton, CT: Taunton Press, Inc., 2000.

Loken, Steve. RECRAFT 90: The Construction of a Resource Efficient House. Missoula: Center for Resourceful Building Technology, 1993.

Marcus, Clare Cooper and Wendy Sarkissian. Housing as if People Mattered. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Marks, Robert W. The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1960.

Marinelli, Janet and Paul Bierman-Lyle. Your Natural Home: The Complete Sourcebook and Design Manual for Creating a Healthy, Beautiful, and Environmentally Sensitive House. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1995.

McCamant, Kathryn and Charles Durrett. Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves, second edition. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1994.

McCoy, Esther. Case Study Houses 1945-1962, second edition. Las Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1977.

McDole, Brad and Chris Jerome. Kit Houses by Mail. New York: The Sonesong Press, 1979.

Moore, Thomas. "Ecology: Sacred Homemaking." In The Soul of Nature: Celebrating the Spirit of the Earth. Edited by Michael Tobias, 137-144. New York: Penguin Books, 1996.

Mumford, Lewis. The City in History. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961.

Palliser, George. George Palliser's Model Homes for the People: A facsimile of the Bridgeport Public Library's copy of George Palliser's first pattern book, published in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1876. Watkins Glen: American Life Foundation, republished 1978.

Pawley, Martin. Buckminster Fuller. London: Trefoil Publications Ltd., 1990.

Philbin, Tom. Buyer's Guide to Manufactured Homes. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1980.

Pijawka, David K. and Kim Shetter. The Environment Comes Home: Arizona Public Service's Environmental Showcase Home. Tuscon, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 1995.

Pople, Nicolas. Experimental Houses. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000.

Rabb, Judith and Bernard. Good Shelter: A Guide to Mobile, Modular, and Prefabricated Houses, Including Domes. New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1975.

Raskhodoff, Nicholas. The Complete Mobile Home Book: The Guide to Manufactured Homes. New York: Stein and Day, 1982.

Reidelbach, J. A., Jr. Modular Housing in the Real. Annandale, VA: Modco, Inc., 1970.

Reidelbach, J. A., Jr. Modular Housing 1972: Statistics & Specifics. Annandale, VA: Modco Inc., 1972.

Rogers, Kate Ellen. The Modern House U.S.A.: Its Design and Decoration. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1962.

Russell, James E. Methods and Materials of Residential Construction. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1985.

Rybczynski, Witold, Avi Friedman, and Susan Ross. The Grow Home: Project Paper No. 3. Montreal: Affordable Homes Program, School of Architecture, McGill University, May 1990.

Schmitz-Günther, editor. Living Spaces: Ecological Building and Design. Cologne: Könemann, english edition 1999.

Schoenauer, Norbert. 6,000 Years of Housing. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2000.

Sears, Roebuck and Co. Sears, Roebuck Catalog of Houses, 1926. New York: Dover Publications, unabridged reprint 1991.

Sergeant, John. Frank Lloyd Wrights' Usonian Houses: Designs for Moderate Cost One-Family Homes. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1984.

Sheine, Judith. R.M. Schindler. Barcelona: Editorial Gustavo Gili, 1998.

Singerman, Howard, ed. Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 1989.

Sudjic, Deyan. Home: The Twentieth-Century House. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1999.

Susanka, Sarah. The Not So Big House. Newtown CT: Tauton Press, 1998.

Taliesin Associated Architects of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Production Dwellings: An Opportunity for Excellence. Spring Green, WI: The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 1970.

Thompson, Eleanor McD. The American Home: Material Culture, Domestic Space, and Family Life. Delaware: The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc., 1998.

Thoreau, Henry David. Walden or, Life in the Woods (1854). New York: Signet Claassics, third edition, 1961.

Todd, Nancy Jack, and John Todd. Bioshelters, Ocean Arks, City Farming: Ecology as the Basis of Design. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1984.

Van der Ryn, Sim. Sustainable Communities: A New Design Synthesis for Cities, Suburbs, and Towns. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1986.

Wade, Alex. Guide to Affordable Houses. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 1984.

Wallis, Allan D. Wheel Estate: The Rise and Decline of Mobile Homes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Walker, Lester. American Shelter. Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1997.

---------. Tiny Tiny Houses. Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1987.

Waren, Karlenzig. A Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing: Developer Guidelines for Resource Efficiency and Sustainable Communities. Santa Monica; Global Green USA, 2000.

Watkins, A. M. The Complete Guide to Factory-Made Houses. Piermont, N.Y.: The Building Institute, 1980.

Webster, Anthony C. Technological Advance in Japanese Building Design and Construction. New York: American Society of Civil Engineers, 1994.

Welsh, John. Modern House. London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1995.

Whiteley, Peter O. "Building Tomorrow's Home," Sunset, May 1998, 192-198.

Wissinger, Joanna. The Best Kit Homes: Save Time and Money on Your Customized Dream House. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 1987.

Wright, Frank Lloyd. Frank Lloyd Wright collected writings. Edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer. New York: Rizzoli, 1992.

Wright, Frank Lloyd. The Natural House. New York: Horizon Press, 1954.

Yannas, Simos. Solar Energy and Housing Design. Vol. 2. London: Architectural Association, 1994.

ECOLOGICAL DESIGN: General

Aberley, Doug, editor. Futures by Design: The Practice of Ecological Planning. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers, 1994.

Ackerman, Diane. A Natural History of the Senses. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.

Alexander, Christopher. The Timeless Way of Building. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

American Institute of Architects (AIA). Environmental Resource Guide. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.

Amourgis, Spyros, editor. Critical Regionalism: The Pomona Meeting Proceedings. Pomona, Cal.: College of Environmental Design, California Polytechnic University, 1991.

Banham, Reyner. The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment/ Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1969.

-------------. Theory and Design in the First Machine Age. New York: Praeger, 1960.

Berge, Bjørn, trans. by Filip Henley. Ecology of Building Materials. Oxford: Architectural Press, 2000.

Barnett, Dianna Lopez, and William D. Browning. A Primer on Sustainable Building. Colorado: The Rocky Mountain Institute, 1995.

Bateson, Gregory. Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity. New York: EP Dutton, 1979.

Bayes, Kenneth. Living Architecture. New York: Anthroposophic Press, 1994.

Bender, Tom. Silence Song and Shadows: Our Need for the Sacred in our Surroundings. Manzanita, OR: Fire River Press, 2000.

Benyus, Janine M. Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. New York: William Marrow and Company, Inc., 1997.

Berry, Thomas. The Dream of the Earth. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1988.

Brand, Stuart. How Buildings Learn. New York: Penguin Books, 1994.

Brown, Lester R., editor. State of the World. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.

Brown, Lester R., Hal Kane, and Ed Ayres, editors. Vital Signs 2002. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1993.

Capra, Fritjof. The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982.

Carlgren, Frans. Rudolph Steiner and Anthroposophy. Translated by Joan Rudel and Siegfried Rudel. London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1979.

Catton, William R., Jr. Overshoot: the Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982.

Chappell, Steve, ed. The Alternative Building Sourcebook: Traditional, Natural and Sustainable Building Products and Services. Brownfield, ME: Fox Maple Press, 1998.

Cottom-Winslow, Margaret. Environmental Design: Architecture and Technology. Glen Cove, NY: PBC International, 1995.

Cusack, Victor. Bamboo Rediscovered. Tentham, Victoria: Earth Garden Books, 1997.

Day, Christopher. Places of the Soul. Northamptonshire, England: Thorso Publishing Group, 1990.

Edminster, Ann, ed. Building with Vision: Optimizing and Finding Alternatives to Wood. San Francisco: Watershed Media, 2001.

Elgin, Duane. Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life that is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich. Rev. ed. New York: William Marrow and Company, Inc., 1993.

Elizabeth, Lynne and Cassandra Adams, eds. Alternative Construction: Contemporary Natural Building Methods. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2000.

Falk, Robert H., ed. The Use of Recycled Wood and Paper in Building Applications. Madison, WI: Forest Products Society, 1997.

Farmer, John. Green Shift: Towards a Green Sensibility in Architecture. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1996.

General XVII for Energy and the Architect's Council of Europe. A Green Vitruvius: Principles and Practice of Sustainable Architectural Design. London: James & James, 1999.

Hawken, Paul. The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.

Hawkes, Dean. Environmental Tradition: Studies in the Architecture of Environment. London: E & FN Spon, 1996.

Humm, Othmar, and Peter Toggweiler. Photovoltaic in Architecture. Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 1993.

Kennedy, Joseph F., ed. The Art of Natural Building: Design, Construction, Technology. Sony Creek, CT: New Society Publishers, 2001.

King, Bruce. Buildings of Earth and Straw: Structural Design for Rammed Earth and Straw-Bale Architecture. Sausalito, CA: Ecological Design Press, 1996.

Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.

Jackson, Wes. Becoming Native to This Place. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1994.

Lippard, Lucy R. The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society. New York: The New York Press, 1997.

Lstiburek, Joseph. Builder's Guide. Westford, MA: Building Science Corporation, 2000.

----------. Builder's Guide to Cold Climates. Newton, CT: Taunton Press, 2000.

Lovelock, James. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Lovins, Amory, and Hunter Lovins. Brittle Power. Andover, Mass.: Brick House Publishing Co., 1982.

Lynch, Kevin. Site Planning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984.

Lyle, John Tillman. Regenerative Design for Sustainable Development. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994

Mark, Robert. Light, Wind, and Structure. Boston, Mass: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990.

Matilsky, Barbara C. Fragile Ecologies: Contemporary Artists' Interpretations and Soltions. New York: Rizzoli, 1992.

McHarg, Ian. Design with Nature. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1992.

McDonough, William. Hannover Principles. Internet. Available from http://repo-nt.tcc.virginia.edu/classes/tcc315/Resources/ALM/Environment/hannover.html

McLuhan, T. C. The Way of the Earth. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Milbrath, Lester. Envisioning a Sustainable Society: Learning Our Way Out. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.

Mumford, Lewis. Architecture as a Home for Man. New York: Architectural Record Books, 1975.

----------. The Myth of the Machine. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1967.

Mumma, Tracy. Guide to Resource Efficient Building Elements, 6th ed. Missoula, MT: The Center for Resourceful Building Technology, 1997.

Naess, Arne, trans. By David Rothenberg. Ecology, Community and Lifestyle: Outline of an Ecosophy. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Odum, Eugene Pleasants. Ecology and Our Endangered Life-Support Systems. Sunderland, Mass.: Sinauer Associates, 1989.

---------. Fundamentals of Ecology. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1953.

Olgay, Victor. Design with Climate. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973.

Orr, David. Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.

Papanek, Victor. The Green Imperative: Natural Design for the Real World. New York: Thames and Hudson, Inc., 1995.

Pearson, David. The Natural House Book. New York: Simon & Schuster Inc., 1989.

----------. Earth to Spirit: In Search of Natural Architecture. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995.

Pilatowicz, Grzyna. Eco-Interiors: A Guide to Environmentally Conscious Interior Design. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1995.

Roszak, Theodore, ed. Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1995.

Rothenberg, David. Hand's End: Technology and the Limits of Nature. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993.

Scully, Vincent. Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.

Schumacher, EF. Small is Beautiful: 1973. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.

Shepard, Paul. Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature. New York: Ballantine Books, 1967.

Skolimowski, Henryk. A Sacred Place to Dwell: Living with Reverence Upon the Earth. Rockport Mass: Element Books Ltd., 1993.

Slessor, Catherine. Eco-Tech: Sustainable Architecture and High Technology. New York : Thames and Hudson, 1997.

Thayer, Robert. Gray World, Green Heart: Technology, Nature, and the Sustainable Landscape. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1994.

Thomas, Reandall. Environmental Design: An Introduction for Architects and Engineers. London: E & FN Spon, 1996.

Thoreau, Henry David. In Wildness is the Preservation of the World. Selections and photographs by Eliot Porter. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1962.

Thoreau, Henry David. The Selected Works of Thoreau. Revised by Walter Harding. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975.

Tobias, Michael, and Georgianne Cowan, editors. The Soul of Nature. New York: Penguin Books, 1996.

Todd, John, and Nancy Jack Todd. Tomorrow is Our Permanent Address. New York: Harper & Row, 1980.

Toy, Maggie, ed. The Architecture of Ecology. London: Architectural Design Magazine Press, 1997.

Tuan, Yi-Fu. Passing Strange and Wonderful: Aesthetics, Nature, and Culture. Washington D.C.: Island Press, 1993.

Tuan, Yi-Fu. Topophilia. New York: Columbia University Press, 1974.

Vale, Brenda and Robert. Green Architecture: Design for an Energy-Conscious Future. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1991.

Van der Ryn, Sim, and Stuart Cowan. Ecological Design. Washington D.C.: Island Press, 1996.

Venolia, Carol. Healing Environments. Berkeley, California: Celestial Arts, 1988.

Vitruvius Pollio. Vitruvius: the Ten Books on Architecture. Translated by Morris Hicky Morgan. New York: Dover Publications, 1960.

Weiner, Jonathan. The Next Hundred Years: Shaping the Fate of the Living Earth. New York: Bantam Books, 1990.

Wells, Malcolm. Gentle Architecture. New York: McGraw Hill, Inc., 1981.

Wines, James. Green Architecture. Köln: Taschen, 2000.

World Commission on Environment and Development. Our Common Future. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Wrede, Stuart and William Howard Adams, eds. Denatured Visions: Landscape and Culture in the Twentieth Century. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1991.

Yeang, Ken. Designing with Nature: The ecological basis for architectural design. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.

Zeiher, Laura C. The Ecology of Architecture: A Complete Guide to Creating the Environmentally Conscious Building. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1996.