House form and culture.

By:

Rapoport, Amos

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Foundations of Cultural Geography SeriesPublication details: 1969 Prentice-Hall Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,Description: x, 146 p. illus. 23 cmISBN:

0133956814

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

301.54 RAP

Summary: This book ties together many ideas from the fields of anthropology and architecture. Rapoport methodically builds an argument for his hypothesis that "The different forms taken by dwellings are a complex phenomenon for which no single explanation will suffice."This is a seminal book on the impact of Culture on architectural form. His writing is very accessible for the non-anthropologist and general public.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Anant National University Central Library	General	301.54 RAP (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	25/04/2023	001886

<p>Bibliography: p. 136-146.</p>

This book ties together many ideas from the fields of anthropology and architecture. Rapoport methodically builds an argument for his hypothesis that "The different forms taken by dwellings are a complex phenomenon for which no single explanation will suffice."This is a seminal book on the impact of Culture on architectural form. His writing is very accessible for the non-anthropologist and general public.

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