Anthropology for Architects
Anthropology for Architects What can architects learn from anthropologists? Rather than presenting architectural artefacts as objects of the anthropological gaze, the book foregrounds the activities…
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Anthropology for Architects
What can architects learn from anthropologists? Rather than presenting architectural artefacts as objects of the anthropological gaze, the book foregrounds the activities and aims of architects themselves. This is the central question examined in Anthropology for Architects - a survey and exploration of the ideas which underpin the correspondence between contemporary social anthropology and architecture.The focus is on architecture as a design practice.
It looks at the choices that designers have to make - whether engaging with a site context, drawing, modelling, constructing, or making a post-occupancy analysis - and explores how an anthropological view can help inform design decisions.Each chapter is arranged around a familiar building type (including the studio, the home, markets, museums, and sacred spaces), in each case showing how anthropology can help