Culture--meaning--architecture : critical reflections on the work of Amos Rapoport
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Culture--meaning--architecture : critical reflections on the work of Amos Rapoport
（Ethnoscapes : current challenges in the environmental social sciences）
Ashgate, c2000
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Description
This collection of essays provides an integrated source for thinking in multiple disciplines on the issue of culture and its relationship with built form and hence, human environmental experience. Whether one is primarily interested in how culture-built environment inquiry affects theoreticl issues, research approaches, research findings, practical applications, or has implications for teaching, the book offers a dialogue in regard to each perspective. The book's introduction provides a conceptual framework for integrating the various contributions in a meaningful and systematic fashion. Contributors come from disciplines including anthropology, architecture, human ecology, psychology and urban planning.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Theoretical inquiry: on the importance of theory, Amos Rapoport
- Amos Rapoport - scholar, conscience and citizen of the environment and behaviour field, Irwin Altman
- house form and culture - what have we learnt in 30 years?, Roderick Lawrence
- the new functionalism and architectural theory, Jon Lang. Part 2 Architectural education: studious questions, Amos Rapoport
- Amos Rapoport - modernism's apologist?, Robert Beckley
- the architect as artist? or scientist? - a modest proposal for the architect-as-cultivator, Linda Groat
- studious questions, studio responses, Wesley Janz. Part 3 Architectural anthropology: culture and built form - a reconsideration, Amos Rapoport
- journey of self-discovery - from "complexity" to "street encounters" and beyond, Yasser Elsheshtawy
- culture, politics and the plaza - an ethnographic approach to the study of urban public spaces in Latin America, Setha Low
- mnemonic meanings of the American Capitol, Charles Goodsell
- the cultural revolution in architecture, Susan Kent.
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