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TOPIC LIST BIO-CLIMATIC DESIGN BUILDINGS & HEALTH DESIGN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN HOW-TO LIGHT & LIFE LIVING SUSTAINABLY SPIRIT & PLACE URBAN ENVIRONMENT WATER & LIFE	LIGHT & LIFE John N. Ott Health & Light The Effects of Natural and Artificial Light on Man and Other Living Things An independent researcher, much maligned by the medical establishment, who pioneered recognition that light (spectrum, quality, rhythm, direction and strength) affects health -- and that restricted spectrum light can lead to serious illness. (Pocket Books) US BOOK STORE UK BOOK STORE LIVING SUSTAINABLY David Pearson The Natural House Book Creating a Healthy, Harmonious, and Ecologically-Sound Home Environment A well-illustrated guide to incorporation of natural and healthy materials into homes. US BOOK STORE UK BOOK STORE	BACK TO TOP     .     . .
. .       . . TOPIC LIST BIO-CLIMATIC DESIGN BUILDINGS & HEALTH DESIGN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN HOW-TO LIGHT & LIFE LIVING SUSTAINABLY SPIRIT & PLACE URBAN ENVIRONMENT WATER & LIFE . .     .     .         .     . .   .	SPIRIT & PLACE David Pearson Earth to Spirit In Search of Natural Architecture A recognition that natural materials root us into nature and that the values with which they are used can en-spirit buildings. Also well illustrated. US BOOK STORE UK BOOK STORE Master Lam Kam Chuen Feng Shui Handbook How to Create a Healthier Living and Working Environment A sensitive introduction to the principles of Feng Shui. While presented in a straightforward way, with many helpful and beautiful illustrations, the author is very careful remind the reader that much more time and practise do a Feng Shui master make. (Henry Holt) US BOOK STORE UK BOOK STORE Christopher Day A Haven for Childhood The story of the Nant-y-cwm Steiner School. How an architect and a community created a kindergarten that would nourish and shelter its children. UK BOOK STORE Also available from Starborn Press * Wales, United Kingdom * 44 1437 563 562 Kenneth Bayes Living Architecture Rudolf Steiner's Ideas in Practice Series A concise introduction to Rudolf Steiner's innovative approach to architecture. He was the first to relate life-principles and soul-awakening with the form of buildings. (Floris Books) US BOOK STORE UK BOOK STORE Christopher Alexander (et al) A Pattern Language At one level a matrix within which the appropriate qualities for any particular situations can be found; but also a wealth of observation as to what gives life to places, at all scales. (Oxford University Press) US BOOK STORE UK BOOK STORE Christopher Day Places of the Soul Our surroundings affect us physically and spiritually: they can contribute to stress and general malaise or balance and strengthen us. This book looks at how building design can start with people and place and how buildings can develop organically from these foundations. (Thorsons) US BOOK STORE UK BOOK STORE Anthony Lawler The Temple in the House Finding the Sacred in Everyday Architecture How to bring spiritual symbolism and reverence into design, refurbishment and living in buildings, especially homes. US BOOK STORE UK BOOK STORE Terah Kathryn Collins The Western Guide to Feng Shui Creating Balance, Harmony, and Prosperity in Your Environment This practical book works hard and honestly to integrate Feng Shui principles with everyday Western life. It is especially useful to study it in conjunction with Master Lam Kam Chuen's Feng Shui Handbook. US BOOK STORE UK BOOK STORE	BACK TO TOP .   .   . .                         .
TOPIC LIST BIO-CLIMATIC DESIGN BUILDINGS & HEALTH DESIGN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN HOW-TO LIGHT & LIFE LIVING SUSTAINABLY SPIRIT & PLACE URBAN ENVIRONMENT WATER & LIFE	URBAN ENVIRONMENT Jan Gehl Life Between Buildings Using Public Space What makes for street life. How to initiate and develop it in streets and public spaces. Well researched ad observed and borne out by numerous examples from Europe to Australia, and so relevant well beyond Northern Europe (incidentally, not the best climate for street life!). (Van Nostrand Reinhold) US BOOK STORE WATER & LIFE Olof Alexandersson Living Water Viktor Schauberger and the Secrets of Natural Energy Traces the work of Victor Schauberger from his early observations about how timber floated in differently shaped streams to his late researches into the life-energies of water and their physical and biological applications. US BOOK STORE UK BOOK STORE Theodore Schwenk Sensitive Chaos The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air The absolute classic work on water, its forms, energies and rhythms and its formative influence upon all living things, from lower plants to the human heart. Generously illustrated with a wealth of convincing example. US BOOK STORE UK BOOK STORE Allan Hall Water, Electricity and Health The only book I've encountered that looks deeply into the relationship between water and health, and moreover makes this complex subject easy and gripping reading. It is generously supported with little-known scientific facts, most particularly about the molecular micro-structures and pattern memory of water and living tissue, and how those are affected by electricity and magnetism. (Hawthorn Books) US BOOK STORE UK BOOK STORE	BACK TO TOP

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