Anthropology for Architects: Social Relations and the Built Environment

by Ray Lucas

What can architects learn from anthropologists? 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. Rather than presenting architectural artefacts as objects of the anthropological gaze, the book foregrounds the activities and aims of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474241506
• ISBN13: 9781474241502
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 264 Pages