Culture-Meaning-Architecture: Critical Reflections on the Work of Amos Rapoport (Ethnoscapes)

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.