Truehome Reading List
This is a list of books and articles that have some bearing on how human beings
relate to their environment, and how that relationship is integral to the evolutionary
process and the societies of man. It’s a pretty diverse list.
All of the titles are linked to Amazon.com, so if you want to know more about the
book or the author, just click the title of the book
We acknowledge that much remains unsettled in every scientific discipline whose
study impacts the ideas that inform the theoretical basis for Truehome. For that
reason, our attempts to understand why our process works remain speculative, and
will remain so until a great deal more research is done by folks like the scientists
and thinkers below.
We have our own ideas about the subject, but if you want to develop your own understanding,
these books and articles are a good place to start.
Architecture and Environment
The Secret Language of Stuff
- Sam Gosling
The Timeless Way of Building
- Christopher Alexander
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Christopher Alexander
America Shelter
- Lester Walker
The Poetics of Space
- Gaston Bachelard
Home as a Mirror of Self
- Clare Cooper Marcus
Places of the Soul
- Christopher Day
Home
- Witold Rybczynski
Some Place Like Home
- Toby Israel
Origins of Architectural Pleasure
- Grant Hildebrand
Rethinking Architecture
- Edited by Neil Leach
Evolutionary Architecture
- Eugene Tsui
Feng Shui Revealed
- R. D. Chin
Feng Shui - Principles for Building and Remodeling
Nancillee Wydra and Lenore Weiss Baigelman
Design Build - Planning through Development
Beard, Loulakis & Wundram
Biology, Physiology and Eusocial Species
The Way of the Cell
- Franklin M. Harold
The Selfish Gene
- Richard Dawkins
The Extended Phenotype
- Richard Dawkins
The Extended Organism
- J. Scott Turner
The Tinkerer's Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself
- J. Scott Turner
Ants at Work
- Deborah Gordon
A Primate's Memoir
- Robert M. Sapolsky
Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers
- Robert M. Sapolsky
Acquiring Genomes
- Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan
The Future of Life
- Edward O. Wilson
Consilience
- Edward O. Wilson
Design Psychology for Redesign and Home Staging
- Robert Wright
Environmental Psychology
Handbook of Environmental Psychology
Edited by Robert B. Bechtel and Arza Churchman
Culture and Environment - Irwin Altman and Martin M. Chambers
The Environment and Social Behavior - Irwin Alman
Language & Communication Theory
The Blank Slate
- Steven Pinker
On Language
- Noam Chomsky
Understanding Media
- Marshall McLuhan
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space
- Joseph Campbell
The Power of Myth
- Joseph Campbell