The Vine

Congrats to The Vine’s indispensable adviser, supporter and friend Sandra Kulli, who was selected to give an audience talk at this year’s TED conference. Served up in four-minute (tightly monitored) segments, it’s no easy feat to communicate a message that is at once substantive, focused and crisp.

In this very short window, Sandra took us on a Pecha Kucha-inspired photographical tour of the 17 homes she’s lived in throughout her life.

Sandra is a connoisseur of, among many things, places and books. And so, while narrating the slides, she paired each location with a favorite book that reflects the spirit of that particular neighborhood, city, or in some cases stage of her life.

The presentation was every bit as thoughtful and moving as it sounds. (In just four minutes!)

We’ll post the video once it becomes available. For now, enjoy Sandra’s booklist.

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• Toby Israel — Some Place Like Home: Using Design Psychology to Create Ideal Places

• Merry Ovnick — Los Angeles: The End of the Rainbow

• Richard Louv — Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

• Sunset Magazine Editorial Staff with Cliff May — Western Ranch Houses

• Lucy Lippard — The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society

• Allan B. Jacobs — Great Streets

• Karen Stabiner — Inventing Desire: Inside Chiat/Day

• Witold Rybczynski — A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century

• Andrea Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz — The Daring Book for Girls

• Dave Isay — Listening is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project

• Ray Oldenburg — The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores…and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community

• Gordon MacKenzie — Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace

• William H. Whyte — The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

• Reyner Banham — Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies

• Adah Bakalinsky and Larry Gordon — Stairway Walks in Los Angeles

• Romy Wyllie — Caltech’s Architectural Heritage

• Rachel Herz — The Scent of Desire: Discovering our Enigmatic Sense of Smell

• Sarah Susanka — The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live

• Clare Cooper Marcus — House as a Mirror of Self: Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home

• Stanley Kunitz — The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden

• Frederic Morton — Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914