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ARCHITECT’S GUIDE TO Feng Shui EXPLODING THE MYTH This Page Intentionally Left Blank ARCHITECT’S GUIDE TO Feng Shui EXPLODING THE MYTH BY CATE BRAMBLE AMSTERDAM BOSTON HEIDELBERG LONDON NEW YORK OXFORD PARIS SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO SINGAPORE SYDNEY TOKYO Architectural Press An imprint of Elsevier Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 200 Wheeler Road, Burlington, MA 01803 First published 2003 Copyright © 2003, Cate Bramble.All rights reserved The right of Cate Bramble to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright holder except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, England W1T 4LP.Applications for the copyright holder's written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publisher Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier’s Science and Technology Rights Department in Oxford, UK:phone:(+44) (0) 1865 843830; fax:(+44) (0) 1865 853333;e-mail:[email protected] may also complete your request on-line via the Elsevier homepage (http://www.elsevier.com), by selecting ‘Customer Support’and then ‘Obtaining Permissions’ British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress ISBN 0 7506 56069 For information on all Architectural Press publications visit our website at www.architecturalpress.com Typeset by Newgen Imaging Systems (P)Ltd, Chennai, India Printed and bound in Great Britain Contents Acknowledgements vii Foreword ix Chapter 1 Introduction:global perspective 3 Chapter 2 Expert rules 17 Chapter 3 Protoscientific and pseudoscientific conventions 35 Chapter 4 4 9 Calculations 57 3 5 8 1 Chapter 5 Planning 67 Chapter 6 Environmental assessment 85 vi Contents Chapter 7 Human factors 111 Chapter 8 Crime and its relation to the environment 127 Chapter 9 Structures 133 Chapter 10 An overview of the theory of time and space 141 Chapter 11 Form and shape theory in time and space theory 147 Chapter 12 Services 151 Chapter 13 Overlooked and overblown issues of drainage, water supply and storage, ventilation, electrical supply and installation, lighting, and sound 157 Chapter 14 Building elements 165 Chapter 15 Resources 173 Bibliography 177 Index 193 Acknowledgements I have always relied on the kindness of strangers.This book would be about parrots had I not had the good luck to study with Master Larry Sang and to meet Master Joseph Yu, Joey Yap and Grandmaster Yap Cheng Hai (whose generosity widened my world to include Master Eva Wong, Master Raymond Lo, and many other notables in this global community).I may never be able to thank all of you enough but I will keep trying. I am also deeply grateful to my friends, most notably Danny Thorn, Elizabeth Moran, Nani Shaked, and Nancy Chen, who supplied endless hours of advice, suggestions, enlightenment, encourage- ment, and humour. Joey Yap and Grandmaster Yap provided much-needed wisdom.Architects Simona Mainini and David Wong were kind enough to read the manuscript and provide a much- needed reality check.Loraine Scott, I cannot thank you enough for the Mac that I entrusted with my thoughts.It never failed and for that I am glad. Without the staff at Architectural Press (Katherine, Alison, and Elizabeth) none of this would be.Thank you all. This Page Intentionally Left Blank Foreword When I first got onto the internet 5 years ago and searched about Feng Shui, I was surprised it appeared that this ancient Chinese practice was quite well received by westerners. However, when I examined the websites and went to the book stores to find out what were available, to my dismay, it was not what Feng Shui was meant to be. I was happy when Cate Bramble’s website ‘Feng Shui for Dummies’caught my eyes.The articles not only showed that Cate was sincere about learning Feng Shui, she was brave enough to declare war on what was not.She continues to make an effort to fulfill her mission and her website grows to become ‘Feng Shui Ultimate Resource’today. A lot of Feng-Shui practices can be explained in terms of science. A lot of Feng Shui theories will be proved using scientific approach in the future. Although it may take another 1000 years or even longer before scientists can explain why and how Feng Shui works, it should be our target.Therefore, the way to study Feng Shui and other ancient metaphysics is to use a logical system.I am glad that Cate is following this line. Cate’s book is timely as there are people who claim to be practising traditional Feng Shui but they are actually promoting superstition. This gives a bad name to Feng Shui and gives a bad impression to scientists, architects, and interior designers.It is true that there are phenomena that cannot be explained using science. We cannot use this as an excuse to practise something that insults our com- mon sense and logical reasoning. Cate’s standpoint is very firm.

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Cate Bramble has devoted her career to highlighting the differences between 'feng shui-lite' as a fashionable pursuit in contrast to the original intentions of the Chinese masters. Here she presents the authentic principles in a technical, no-nonsense pocket book specifically for architects. As clie
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