Domestic Architecture and the Use of Space
An Interdisciplinary Cross-Cultural Study

This book investigates the relationship between the built environment and the organisation of space.

Susan Kent (Edited by)

9780521445771, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 25 June 1993

204 pages, 50 b/w illus. 11 tables
27.6 x 22 x 1.2 cm, 0.485 kg

'This corpus of papers is certainly a valuable contribution to research on the creation, use and meaning of the built environment.' Michael Adler, Journal of Anthropological Research

Domestic Architecture and the Use of Space investigates the relationship between the built environment and the organisation of space. The contributors are classical and prehistoric archaeologists, anthropologists and architects, who from their different backgrounds are able to provide some important and original insights into this relationship.

1. Activity areas and architecture: an interdisciplinary view of the relationship between use of space and domestic built environments Susan Kent
2. Systems of activities and systems of settings Amos Rapoport
3. Domestic space and the tenacity of tradition among some Betsileo of Madagascar Susan Kus and Victor Raharijaona
4. The built environment and consumer decisions Richard R. Wilk
5. Behavioural conventions and archaeology: methods for the analysis of ancient architecture Donald Sanders
6. Public collective and private space: a study of urban housing in Switzerland Roderick J. Lawrence
7. Domestic space in the Greek city-state Michael H. Jameson
8. A structuring structure: the Swahili house Linda W. Donley-Reid
9. A cross-cultural study of segmentation, architecture and the use of space Susan Kent
10. Domestic space and social structure in pre-Columbian northern Peru Garth Bawden.

Subject Areas: Residential buildings, domestic buildings [AMK], Theory of architecture [AMA]