Anasazi Architecture and American Design
Anasazi Architecture and American Design
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press | pages: 271 | 1997 | ISBN: 0826317790 | CHM | 10,8 mb
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press | pages: 271 | 1997 | ISBN: 0826317790 | CHM | 10,8 mb
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.