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Anasazi Architecture and American Design - by Baker H Morrow & V B Price (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Anasazi Architecture and American Design is a journey through Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde with leading southwestern archaeologists, historians, architects, landscape architects, artists, and urban planners as guides.
- Author(s): Baker H Morrow & V B Price
- 271 Pages
- Architecture, History
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About the Book
Take a fascinating journey through Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde with leading southwestern archaeologists, historians, architects, artists, and urban planners as guides. Twenty-two essays identify Anasazi building and cultural features related to design and site planning, history, mythology, and ecology. 40 halftones. 5 maps.Book Synopsis
Anasazi Architecture and American Design is a journey through Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde with leading southwestern archaeologists, historians, architects, landscape architects, artists, and urban planners as guides. In sixteen chapters, the volume's twenty-two essayists identify Anasazi building and cultural features related to design and site planning, cosmography, mythology, and ecology, then expertly balance their observations of past architectural and cultural achievements with suggestions and recommendations for design practices in the present.
Among the contributors are Santa Clara Pueblo architectural theorist Rina Swentzell; architects Tony Anella and Stephen Schreiber; historian Richard Ellis; art historian J. J. Brody; archaeologists Stephen Lekson, David Stuart, Michael Marshall, John Stein, and Dabney Ford; urban planners Theodore Jojola, Judith Suiter, Stephen Dent, Barbara Coleman, and Paul Lusk; and artist Anna Sofaer, founder of the Solstice Project.
Review Quotes
"Anasazi Architecture and American Design" is a provocative contribution to the study of prehistoric Puebloan buildings. . . . this is a stimulating book that should promote innovative directions in the study of prehistoric Southwest architecture.
This reviewer recommends this book to any serious lay aficionado or student of the Anasazi.
""Anasazi Architecture and American Design is a provocative contribution to the study of prehistoric Puebloan buildings. . . . this is a stimulating book that should promote innovative directions in the study of prehistoric Southwest architecture."