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Structure
and Meaning in Human Settlements Edited by Tony Atkin & Joseph Rykwert SEE THE CONTENTS This groundbreaking book explores the relationships among form, space, and cultural meaning in human habitation. Authors from a variety of disciplines and international sites address the possibilities of common ground in architectural theories about place and dwelling, anthropological research on settlement archaeology, and the study of cultural landscapes and geography. Those in the practice of designing buildings and towns as well as scholars who examine settlements for evidence of social organization and structure offer their interpretations and ideas about the meanings of how societies define and organize human existence. Topics include geomancy and divinations as determinants of traditional settlements, symbolic and productive landscapes, and the interplay of climate, environmental conditions, social relationships, and ideology with settlement patterns and structures as well as geography and settlements in dynastic Egypt, ritual bathing and household organization in the ancient Indus cities of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa, Etruscan boundaries and prophecy, and Maya cosmology and spatial distribution. Case studies on settlement practices in Dahomey, Zuni, and other surviving indigenous cultures are juxtaposed with examples of extreme settlement conditions in the Russian Arctic and ingenious methods of water collection and control in the Saharan oasis. Ideas about settlement in periods of rapid social and economic change, such as our own, emerge from presentations about architecture and power, modernist ideology and settlement, public housing and contemporary urban design in the U.S., and the unprecedented development of post–Mao China. MEET THE EDITORS • Tony Atkin is Principal, Atkin Olshin Lawson–Bell Architects and Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania. Joseph Rykwert is the Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture and Professor of Art History Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania. CONTRIBUTORS Wendy Ashmore, Tony Atkin, Augustin Berque, Suzanne P. Blier, Larissa Bonfante, M. Christine Boyer, Edmund Carpenter, Thomas J. Campanella, Denis Cosgrove, T. J. Ferguson, Stephan Feuchtwang, Stanislaus Fung, Tsutomu Iyori, Pietro Laureano, David Leatherbarrow, David O’Connor, Laurie Olin, Juhani Pallasmaa, Gregory Possehl, Robert W. Preucel, Joseph Rykwert, Michael Sorkin, Lawrence Vale, and the late Gordon R. Willey. |
Foreword Gary Hack and Jeremy A. Sabloff 1 Building and Knowing Joseph Rykwert and Tony Atkin 2 Animal Settlements: Ecological Functionalism of Animal Architecture Juhani Pallasmaa 3 Settlement Patterns in Americanist Archaeology Gordon R. Willey 4 The Idea of a Maya Town Wendy Ashmore 5 Cosmological Structures of Ancient Egyptian City Planning David O’Connor 6 Mohenjo-Daro: The Symbolic Landscape of an Ancient City Gregory Possehl 7 Holy Mountains Joseph Rykwert 8 The Ontological Structure of Mediance as a Ground of Meaning in Architecture Augustin Berque 9 Three Gestures in a Poetics of Place: Chinese Settlement and Disruption Stephan Feuchtwang 10 The Language of Cultural Memory in Chinese Gardens Stanislaus Fung 11 A Culture without a Temple: Ritual Landscape Sanctuaries and Female Superiority in State Religion in Ryukyu Tsutomu Iyori 12 Etruscan Boundaries and Prophecy Larissa Bonfante 13 Razing the Roof: The Imperative of Building Destruction in Danhomè (Dahomey) Suzanne P. Blier 14 Signs of the Ancestors: An Archaeology of Mesa Villages of the Pueblo Revolt T. J. Ferguson and Robert Preucel 15 Imagining the Past Edmund Carpenter 16 The Oasis Model Pietro Laureano 17 The Evolution of Settlement: Fieldwork at Zuni Pueblo 1995–97 Tony Atkin 18 The Primitive Origins of Modern Architecture: Le Corbusier’s Voyage to the East M. Christine Boyer 19 Symbolic Settlements: The American Ideological Tension Between Private Homes and Public Housing Lawrence J. Vale 20 Transplanting the New Jersey Turnpike to China Thomas J. Campanella 21 Landscape Ecology and Cities Laurie Olin 22 Settlements After Now Michael Sorkin 23 21st Century Nomadism and Settlement Denis Cosgrove 24 Materials Matter in Urban Architecture David Leatherbarrow |
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