Title & Author:

Culture--meaning--architecture : critical reflections on the work of Amos Rapoport / edited by Keith Diaz Moore.

Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, [2000]
©2000

Description:

xxix, 277 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Ethnoscapes

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Introduction / Keith Diaz Moore -- Part I. Theoretical inquiry -- 2. On the importance of theory / Amos Rapoport -- 3. Amos Rapoport : scholar, conscience and citizen of the environment and behavior field / Irwin Altman -- 4. House form and culture : what have we learnt in thirty years? / Roderick J. Lawrence -- 5. The 'new' functionalism and architectural theory / Jon Lang -- Part II. Architectural education -- 6. Studious questions / Amos Rapoport -- 7. Amos Rapoport : modernism's apologist? / Robert M. Beckley -- 8. The architect as artist or scientist? : a modest proposal for the architect-as-cultivator / Linda N. Groat -- 9. Studious questions, studio responses / Wesley Janz -- Part III. Architectural anthropology -- 10. Culture and built form : a reconsideration / Amos Rapoport -- 11. Journey of self-discovery : from "complexity" to "street encounters" and beyond / Yasser Elshestawy -- 12. Culture, politics and the plaza : an ethnographic approach to the study of urban public spaces in Latin America / Setha M. Low -- 13. Mnemonic meanings of the American capitol / Charles T. Goodsell -- 14. The cultural revolution in architecture / Susan Kent.

Summary:

"This collection of essays provides an integrated source for the latest 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: theoretical issues, research approaches, research findings, practical applications, or has implications for teaching, this book provides an engaging dialogue in regard to each of these perspectives. As important, the book's introduction provides a conceptual framework for integrating the various contributions in a meaningful and systemic fashion. Contributors come from disciplines including anthropology, architecture, human ecology, psychology and urban planning."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

0754612422
9780754612421

Subject:

Rapoport, Amos Criticism and interpretation.
Rapoport, Amos
Architecture Human factors.
Architecture Environmental aspects.
Architecture Facteurs humains.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Architekturtheorie
Bouwkunst.
Architecten.

Form/genre:

Essays.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Moore, Keith Diaz, 1966- editor.
Ethnoscapes (Unnumbered)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 217309
Call No.: NA2599.8.R221 C8 2000
Status: Available