Title & Author:

Dwellings, settlements, and tradition : cross-cultural perspectives / edited by Jean-Paul Bourdier, Nezar AlSayyad.

Publication:

Lanham : University Press of America ; Berkeley, CA : International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, ©1989.

Description:

540 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Dwellings, settlements and tradition / Jean-Paul Bourdier and Nezar AlSayyad -- Traditional : what does it mean? / Yi-Fu Tuan -- Reading tradition / Jean-Paul Bourdier -- Handed down architecture : tradition and transmission / Paul Oliver -- On the attributes of tradition / Amos Rapoport -- Junctions of town and country / Spiro Kostof -- Permanence of rural settlements in Thai towns / Sophie Clement-Charpentier -- The interpenetration of high and folk traditions in Malta / Jo Tonna -- The place of no-thingness : the Japanese house and the oriental world views of the Japanese / Botond Bognar -- Center and duality in the Javanese dwelling / Gunawan Tjahjono -- The design of the great chief's house in South Nias, Indonesia / Jerome Feldman -- The meaning of residence in traditional Hindu society / Ismet Khambatta -- Sacred space, ritual and the traditional Greek house / Eleftherios Pavlides and Jana Hesser.
Siting and general organization of traditional Korean settlements / Sang Hae Lee -- Speaking to and talking about : Maori architecture / Michael Linzey -- Moral architecture : beauty and ethics in Batammaliba building design / Suzanne Preston Blier -- The oasis of Farafra in the eyes of its inhabitants / Amr Abdel Kawi -- Colonial cottage settlements in Tasmania / John Webster -- The emergence of the central hall house-type in the context of nineteenth-century Palestine / A.R. Fuchs and M. Meyer-Brodnitz -- The hybrid metropolis : Western influences in India / Norma Evenson -- Settlement and resettlement in Umm Qeis : spatial organization of a Jordanian village / Seteney Shami -- Migration, tradition and change in some Vernacular architectures of Indonesia / Roxanne Waterson -- Traditional versus modern housing in Botswana : an analysis from the user's perspective / Anita Larsson.
Dualities in the study of traditional dwellings and settlements / Nezar AlSayyad.

ISBN:

0819175234 (alk. paper)
9780819175236 (alk. paper)
0819175242 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780819175243 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Dwellings Cross-cultural studies.
Human settlements Cross-cultural studies.
Vernacular architecture Cross-cultural studies.
Social ecology.
Habitations Études transculturelles.
Établissements humains Études transculturelles.
Architecture vernaculaire Études transculturelles.
Écologie sociale.
human ecology.
Dwellings
Human settlements
Vernacular architecture
Haus
Kulturvergleich
Volksarchitektur
Aufsatzsammlung
cultuur
culture
diffusie
diffusion
woningen
dwellings
geografie
geography
huizen
homes
huisvesting
housing
mens
man
psychologie
psychology
nederzetting
settlement
huisvesting in eengezinswoningen
single family housing
sociale geografie
social geography
tradities
traditions
gebruik
usage
gebruiken
customs
invloeden
influences
Architecture (General)
Architectuur (algemeen)

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Cross-cultural studies

Added entries:

Bourdier, Jean-Paul.
AlSayyad, Nezar.
International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 36234
Call No.: GN413.D8 (ID:88-B7409)
Status: Available