Culture-Meaning-Architecture - Critical Reflections on the Work of Amos Rapoport

List of contents

Introduction. Theoretical Inquiry: On the importance of theory; Amos Rapoport: scholar, conscience and citizen of the environment and behaviour field; House form and culture: what have we learnt in thirty years?; The new functionalism and architectural theory. Architectural Education: Studious questions; Amos Rapoport: modernism’s apologist?; The architect as artist or scientist?: a modest proposal for the architect-as-cultivator; Studious questions, studio responses. Architectural Anthropology: Culture and built form - a reconsideration; Journey of self-discovery: from complexity to street encounters and beyond; Culture, politics, and the plaza: an ethnographic approach to the study of urban public spaces in Latin America; Mnemonic meanings of the American capitol; The cultural revolution in architecture.

About the author

Keith Diaz Moore

Summary

This title was first pulished in 2000:  This book brings together anthropologists, architects, psychologists, political and environmental scientists and landscape architects to discuss Amos Rapoport’s seminal work on the cultural significance of the built environment.

Product details

• Authors: Keith Diaz Moore
• Assisted by: Keith Diaz Moore (Editor), Moore Keith Diaz (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781138712331
• ISBN: 978-1-138-71233-1
• No. of pages: 308
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Architecture, Cultural Studies, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Regional Planning, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Urban & municipal planning, Human Geography, Urban and municipal planning and policy