384
pages • 220 figures • index
9" x 12" • cloth • references
ISBN 1-931707-83-9
ISBN 978-1-931707-83-1
List Price: $59.95
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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. |
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