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Title: Architect's Guide to Feng Shui, Exploding the Myth by Cate Bramble ISBN: 0-7506-5606-9 Publisher: Architectural Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Not a 'How To'
Comment: This book was written with the premise of helping professional architects to interface with Feng Shui practitioners and the advise/suggestions they might put forward on building or remodeling plans. It offers some insight into what Feng Shui considers in making evaluations of a building or building site, and at it's best attempts to convey the realization that much of Feng Shui seeks to direct planning in the way of basic common sense. It is quite direct in it's opinion of the errors of the "New Age" variations of Feng Shui, those not based on the Five Element Theory, broadly categorized as "Mc Feng Shui".
This is all well and good as background data, but is so general as to be useless in evaluating any specific site or plan. Did I mention that this book is definitely not a "How To" book. Do not look here for any insight into the particulars that are needed to actually calculate any aspect of Feng Shui. At best, this book will help you cram for your next cocktail party display of erudition to better impress your friends and rivals.
Rating: 1
Summary: Hypocrite
Comment: Poorly written, but that's no surprise.
I first came into contact with Bramble on her website and HAD to check out her book because the website was so offensive.
While Bramble criticizes every western Feng Shui practitioner who has been moderately successful at publishing, she is trying to inflate her own image. Get it...cut everyone else down so she looks better in comparison.
The result is that her own work is pathetically commercial, exactly what she criticizes everyone else for. And she doesn't even seem to realize it herself. Or if she does, she just expects to bully the reader into thinking she is right.
Look at her website www.qi-whiz.com. Notice how much hatred is flowing from her typewriter? How can someone with so much hate be any good at anything with a spiritual component? It's like asking George Bush to give the Pope his last rights.
Don't buy this book. Visit her website and decide for yourself is this person's emotional instability is something you want to incorporate into your life-long home.
Rating: 1
Summary: An interesting topic poorly presented
Comment: This book purports to rubbish non Classical feng shui but finishes up talking about green issues and electro-magnetic pollution. Neither of these things are part of Classical Chinese feng shui, which is about orientation, timing, direction and the movement of ch'i and water and these things effects on the people who live a specific location.
Cate Bramble falls into the trap of retailing New Age nonsense as if it were real feng shui, whilst chiding other people for doing just that.
It would have been helpful if the book contained real background material on Chinese building techniques and materials, like Evelyn Lip, but in a more organised way. Then the reader could see where feng shui applies to modern architecture. But Cate unfortunately does not do this in any depth.
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Title: The Art & Science of Feng Shui: The Ancient Chinese Tradition of Shaping Fate by Henry B. Lin ISBN: 1567184367 Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Feng Shui Demystified: A Comparative Compendium on Flying Star Feng Shui and the Eight Mansion Formula by Ulrich Wilhelm Lippelt ISBN: 1403381348 Publisher: 1stBooks Library Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: Li, Qi, and Shu : An Introduction to Science and Civilization in China by Ho Peng Yoke ISBN: 0486414450 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 16 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Feng Shui For Skeptics by Kartar Diamond ISBN: 0967193788 Publisher: Four Pillars Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Feng Shui Principles for Building and Remodeling : Creating a Space That Meets Your Needs and Promotes Well-Being by Nancilee Wydra, Lenore Weiss Baigelman ISBN: 0809297388 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 23 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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