Theorizing Built Form and Culture

Name: Theorizing Built Form and Culture | The Legacy of Amos Rapoport
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The Legacy of Amos Rapoport

Kapila D. Silva Nisha A. Fernando(Herausgeber*in)

Taylor & Francis (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 8. März 2024

332 Seiten

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In this collection of essays, Theorizing Built Form and Culture: The Legacy of Amos Rapoport - a felicitation volume to celebrate the significance of Professor Amos Rapoport's lifelong scholarship - scholars from around the world discuss the analytical relevance, expansion, and continuing application of these contributions in developing an advanced understanding of mutual relationships between people and built environments across cultures.

Professor Amos Rapoport has espoused an intellectual and theoretical legacy on environmental design scholarship that explains how cultural factors play a significant role in the ways people create and use environments as well as the way environments, in turn, influence people's behavior. This volume presents a hitherto-not-seen, unique, and singular work that simultaneously articulates a cohesive framework of Rapoport's architectural theories and demonstrates how that theoretical approach be used in architectural inquiry, education, and practice across environmental scales, types, and cultural contexts. It also acknowledges, for the very first time, how this theoretical legacy has pioneered the decolonizing of the Eurocentric approaches to architectural inquiry and has thus privileged an inclusive, cross-cultural perspective that laid the groundwork to understand and analyze non-Western design traditions. The book thus reflects a wide range of cross-cultural and cross-contextual range to which Professor Rapoport's theories apply, a general notion of theoretical validity he always advocated for in his own writings.

The volume is a paramount source for scholars and students of architecture who are interested in understanding how culture mediates the creation, use, and preservation of the built environment.

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"A must-read for anyone interested in the complex ways in which people interrelate to their built environments, Theorizing Built Form and Culture is a welcome tribute to the enduring legacy of one of the eminent architectural theorists of the second half of the twentieth century."

Marcel Vellinga, Professor of Anthropology of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University

"This collection provides an exhilarating synthesis of the intellectual legacy of Amos Rapoport, one of the most essential architectural theorists of the twentieth century. It offers a timely, provocative invitation to leverage this work for addressing twenty-first century challenges such as housing diversity, inclusive urbanization and decolonizing pedagogies and practices."

Keith Diaz Moore, Ph.D., AIA, Associate Provost, Institutional Design & Strategy and Director, Design Institute for Health & Resilience, University of Utah

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List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword: about Amos
HENRY SANOFF

Introduction: the intellectual legacy of Amos Rapoport

KAPILA D. SILVA AND NISHA A. FERNANDO

PART I
Home and work environments

1 Analyzing the transformation of the Kuwaiti house

MOHAMMAD ALJASSAR

2 Amos Rapoport and my journey toward Culturally Enriched Communities

TASOULLA HADJIYANNI

3 Toward an understanding of environmental evaluations in urban residential areas: continuing the journey enlightened by Amos Rapoport

CAGRI IMAMOGLU

4 Integrating Amos Rapoport's 'systems of settings and activities' and Anthony Giddens'

'structuration theory': the socio-spatial context of live-work environments

ATIYA MAHMOOD

5 Expanding on Amos Rapoport's systems of activities and systems of settings in nursing workspaces

KAREN KEDDY

PART II
Cultural landscapes

6 Sensory experiences as cultural place identity: two case studies

NISHA A. FERNANDO

7 Amos in Arabia: humanizing principles in the architecture and urbanization of Abu Dhabi and Riyadh

YASSER ELSHESHTAWY

8 Culture, race, and marginalization: the case of African American storefront churches in central city Milwaukee

ASHA KUTTY AND NEWTON D'SOUZA

9 System of settings and activities: a framework to study vernacular settlements and cultural landscapes in China

WEI ZHAO

10 The Santhal house and cultural landscape in Shantiniketan, India

AMITA SINHA, KAILASHPATI MAURYA, AND UPAMA SEN

11 Theoretical inspirations of Amos Rapoport: reflections on the International Studies on Vernacular Settlements (ISVS)

RANJITH DAYARATNE

12 Exploring heritage from an environment-behavior studies perspective

KAPILA D. SILVA

PART III

Environmental well-being

13 Ambiance a la Rapoport: indoor environmental quality and its profiles

IHAB M. K. ELZEYADI

14 Residential choice and fit in a Milwaukee refugee enclave

LYNNE M. DEARBORN AND ANGELINA TSOUKALA

15 People-nature interactions within activity settings: understanding health-promoting mechanisms using Amos Rapoport's three EBS questions

SUSANA ALVES AND GOWRI BETRABET GULWADI

16 Aging in place: the roles of food-related activities engagement among older Indonesian women

WIDYA A. RAMADHANI AND LYNNE M. DEARBORN

PART IV
Design theory, pedagogy, and practice

17 Amos Rapoport on design knowledge: enabling a theory for a trans-critical pedagogy in architectural education

ASHRAF M. SALAMA

18 Pedagogical implications of Amos Rapoport's theoretical views

HISHAM S. GABR

19 Connecting design to education outcomes

SEAN O'DONNELL

20 How does culture influence design?

SANJOY MAZUMDAR

21 How does design affect culture?

SANJOY MAZUMDAR

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