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Articles Recommended by Sarah Susanka
The Rise of
Integral Culture
There's a large segment of the population (over 24%) that has become
disenchanted with the current emphasis on materialism, and the "bigger is better"
mentality. The people who comprise this group have been named Cultural Creatives
by Dr. Paul Ray, the author of this excellent and important 1997 American
Demographics magazine article.
The NEXT
Industrial Revolution in the
Atlantic Monthly. This article is a must read for those interested in
understanding how we can go about designing a more sustainable world. Authors
William McDonough, FAIA and Dr. Michael Braungart have written an extraordinarily
clear description of the current confusions in our thinking, and have put forward
a remarkable and attainable vision for our future.
Sarah recommends these books about home design
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Creating Cohousing. Building Sustainable Communities
Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett (2011)
Available at Amazon.com
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Senior Cohousing: A Community Approach to Independent Living. The Handbook.
Charles Durrett (2009)
Available at Amazon.com
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Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small-Scale Community in a Large-Scale World
Ross Chapin
Available at Amazon.com
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Welcoming Home: Creating a House that Says Hello
Michaela Mahady
Available at Amazon.com
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Green Restorations: Sustainable Building and Historic Homes
Aaron Lubeck
Available at Amazon.com
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Yankee Modern: 10 Houses By Estes/Twombly
William Morgan
Available at Amazon.com
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Mascord Efficient Living
Alan Mascord Design Associates
Available at Amazon.com
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Get Your House Right
Marianne Cusato
Available at Amazon.com
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Home: A Short History of an Idea
Witold Rybczynski
Available at Amazon.com
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House as a Mirror of Self
Clare Cooper Marcus
Available at Amazon.com
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Designing Your Perfect House
William J. Hirsch Jr., AIA
Available at Amazon.com
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How To Work With An Architect
Gerald Lee Morosco, AIA
Available at Amazon.com
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Natural Remodeling for the Not-So-Green House; Bringing Your Home into Harmony with Nature
Carol Venolia and Kelly Lerner
Available at Amazon.com
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The Barefoot Home: Dressed down design for casual living
Marc Vassallo, co-author of Inside the Not So Big House
Available at Amazon.com
www.barefoothome.com
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Salmela | Architect
David Salmela is an incredibly talented Minnesota architect, whose work is
primarily residential, and very beautiful. This book can serve as inspiration for anyone considering the
design of their own home, or simply interested in what a house can be when designed from top to toe.
Tom Fisher, with photography by Peter Kerze
Available at Amazon.com
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Creating the Inspired House
John Connell
Available at Amazon.com
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The Distinctive Home: A Vision of Timeless Design
by Jeremiah Eck
Available at Amazon.com
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The Farmhouse: New Inspiration for the Classic American Home
Jean Rehkamp Larson
Available at Amazon.com
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The Getaway Home: Discovering your home away from home
Dale Mulfinger
Available at Amazon.com
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The Cabin: Inspiration for the classic American getaway
Dale Mulfinger, Susan E. Davis
Available at Amazon.com
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Good House Parts: Creating a Great Home Piece by Piece
Dennis Wedlick
Available at Amazon.com
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein
Available at Amazon.com
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The Timeless Way of Building
Christopher Alexander
Available at Amazon.com
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The New Cottage Home
John Tolpin
Available at Amazon.com
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The New Family Home: Creating the Perfect Home for Today and Tomorrow
John Tolpin
Available at Amazon.com
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Meditations on Design: Reinventing your Home with Style and Simplicity
John Wheatman
Available at Amazon.com
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Additional recommended books
You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall by Colin Ellard
The
Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People are Changing the World by Paul Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson
New
Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community by Peter Katz
Silence, Song and Shadows by Tom Bender
Building with the Breath of
Life by Tom Bender
Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, & Hunter Lovins
The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken
Waking Up in Time by Peter Russell
Global Mind Change by Willis Harman
The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot
Magazines Recommended by Sarah Susanka
These are a few of the home design magazines available on the web. Some
merely offer you an opportunity to subscribe, while others are more generous in
their online articles and images.
Fine Homebuilding
Architectural Digest
Better Homes and Gardens
House Beautiful
Natural Home and Garden Magazine
O at Home
Soulful Living
Traditional Home
These are a few of our favorite magazines on related issues:
The Sun
Seed
Shambhala Sun
Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures
Parabola Magazine
Feng Shui for Modern Living
The Well
Hope Magazine
EnlightenNext Magazine
Tricycle Hub
The Environmental Magazine
The Utne Reader
Web Sites Recommended by Sarah Susanka
SimplicityJourney.com
Connecting you with people, products, and ideas that allow you to live more simply.
www.homeportfolio.com
This is a web site filled with excellently designed products, suitable for a Not
So Big House. There's a wonderful feature on the site that allows you to collect
images and data on the products you like, that you can later download and give to
your architect or designer. I recommend this site to all my clients.
Television & Video Recommended by Sarah Susanka
The television series Hometime has featured houses that utilize Not
So Big House concepts.
Simple Living with Wanda Urbanska is a television show that offers thoughtful ideas to inspire each of us to make adjustments to possession-cluttered, time-starved lives.
The Arts and Crafts Movement
Founders of the Arts & Crafts Movement
A fine site on the Arts & Crafts Movement, it includes an anthology of writings on interior design by William Morris and his contemporaries.
The Arts & Crafts Society
The home page of the Arts & Crafts Society, including events and archives.
In the Craftsman Style: House Plans by Ashmore/Kessenich Design
Features a book of 10 house designs and 2 studio/garage designs "inspired by designs of the early 20th century".
Frank Lloyd Wright
The Frank Lloyd Wright Source Page
An overall reference source for Frank Lloyd Wright locations on the web.
The
Taliesin Preservation Commission
The Taliesin Preservation Commission works to preserve
Taliesin--Frank Lloyd Wright's estate in Spring Green, Wisconsin--as an eminent example of organic
architecture and the vision of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Frank Lloyd Wright in
Minnesota
Listings and information about Frank Lloyd Wright's Minnesota architecture.
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