A Place of My Own (39 page)

Lynch, Kevin.
What Time Is the Place?
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 1972).

Mostafavi, Mohsen, and David Leatherbarrow.
On Weathering
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993).

My principal sources on trees and woods were Herbert L. Edlin’s
What Wood Is That? A Manual of Wood Identification
(New York: Viking Press, 1969) and Donald Culross Peattie’s
A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966).

Benoit Mandelbrot’s ideas about architectural ornament are discussed briefly in James Gleick’s
Chaos: Making a New Science
(New York: Viking, 1987).

On the history of the study and the rise of the modern individual the key work is
A History of Private Life
, edited by Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby. See Volume III,
Passions of the Renaissance
, especially Ariès’s introduction, as well as “The Refuges of Intimacy” by Orest Ranum, and “The Practical Impact of Writing” by Roger Chartier. See also John Lukacs’s essay “The Bourgeois Interior” in
The American Scholar
(Vol. 39, No. 4, Autumn 1970) and Mark Wigley’s essay “Untitled: The Housing of Gender” in
Sexuality and Space
, edited by Beatriz Colomina (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992). Montaigne’s description of his study appears in “On Three Kinds of Social Intercourse” in Book III of
Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays
, translated by M. A. Screech (New York: Penguin, 1987).