ARCHITECTURE + HABITAT
ANTHROPOLOGY

• ON THE STRUCTURE OF THIS COLLECTION OF STUDIES
• HOMO TERRITORIALIS, A Short Survey of the Approach

• THE ORIGINS OF ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH
• ARCHITECTURE AND HABITAT ANTHROPOLOGY
• WHAT IS IMPLOSION?
• ARCHITECTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY - Outlines of a constructive human past
• HABITAT THEORY OF CULTURE
• HABITAT RESEARCH
• WHAT IS DWELLING/HOUSING RESEARCH?

AHA1

• PREFACE
• THE MOSAIC OF ENDLESS MICRO THEORIES AND THE FUNCTION OF MACRO THEORIES - Some theoretical notes on the History of Anthropology and on the Theory of Architecture
• THE PRESENT RELEVANCE OF THE PRIMITIVE IN ARCHITECTURE
• ARCHITECTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: OUTLINES OF A CONSTRUCTIVE HUMAN PAST

AHA2

• O. F. BOLLNOW'S ANTHROPOLOGY OF SPACE - A revolutionary Paradigm is under Way - Book review on Bollnow's 'Man and Space'
• A BREAKTHROUGH TO A CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE - Architecture builds interdisciplinary bridges to the Humanities
• HABITAT RESEARCH AND ARCHITECTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY - Why do we need a general framework?
• APE ARCHITECTS - The 'Primordial Hut' of architectural theory and the nest?building behavior of the great apes
• DID THE FIRST HOMINIDS BUILD ARBOREAL NESTS? Yes, probably, but their terrestric nests were much more important! Critical notes on how the Yerkesian term "constructivity" became lost in primatology! A reply to 'Current Anthropology'
• SHORT NOTE TO A SEMIOTICIAN - About the traffic signs of the Bonobos
• SOFTWARE FOR A SOFT PREHISTORY - Structural history and structural ergology - Approaches towards a settlement genetic theory of culture
• HABITAT ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL DEFINITION OF MATERIAL CULTURE - On the way towards an anthropological prehistory
• ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE AND HABITAT - Some Research Problems in the Framework of wider Anthropological Horizons
• THE HISTORICISM OF QUANTIFIED PROPORTION - Critical objections to Wittkower's "Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism" - Outlining a "theory of relativity" of premodern architectural form
• VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE - WHERE DO THE SYMBOLIC MEANINGS COME FROM? Some notes regarding the "anthropology of the house"

AHA3

• DAGOBERT FREY AND THE ACCESS-PLACE SCHEME - A global view on architectural principles
• DID ROCK ART COPY FIBROCONSTRUCTIVE ART? Semantic architecture and the interpretation of prehistoric rock art - An ethno-(pre-)historical approach
• METABOLISM OF FORM IN ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE - Critical review of the art historian's interpretation of the oeuvre of Gottfried Semper and the implications of his concept for research into architectural anthropology
• SEMANTIC ARCHITECTURE AND THE BIRTH OF SCRIPT- A theory of the origins of writing based on architectural anthropology
• THE CONSTITUTIONAL TRAITS OF RELIGION - Towards an Inductive Anthropology of Religion and Ontology
• THE BIRTH OF MYTH FROM SEMANTIC ARCHITECTURE - An architectural anthropological approach to the interpretation of myth: The case of Japan
• THE ETERNALLY BURNING THORNBUSH - The first revelation of the Old Testament in an ethno-historical perspective.
• THE ORIGINS OF SCIENCE AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE HARMONY OF ART - A philosophical scenario based on the anthropology of the human mind
• THE BIRTH OF CURTAIN WALLS FROM THE CONCEPT OF STYLE - Nietzsche‘s Satyr, Woelfflin‘s analytical scalpel and the banality of pure geometry - The double roots of tectonic form

 

AHA4

• SYMBOLS OF REED AND BAMBOO - Living Shinto Tradition in Japan - A short report on research done in the Omihachiman region
• SHIN NO MI-HASHIRA - The Illustrious Central Pillar of the Japanese World - Village Shinto and the secret agrarian element under the Imperial Shrines at Ise
• RITUAL TRADITION AS VITAL HISTORY - Shinto festivals as a gateway to Japanese cultural history
• FOLK FESTIVALS AS A GATEWAY TO JAPANESE CULTURE
• TAIMATSU MATSURI - A Festival of Traditional Village Shinto
• ON-MATSURI AT NARA - A Festival of Aristocratic Shinto
• SEIHAKUSAI - A Festival of Feudal Shinto
• GETA-MATSURI - The Fishermen's New Year's Festival on the Isle of the Gods
• JAPANESE RICE CULTURE - The Misunderstood Philosophy of the Agrarian Past
• FUJISAN - THE MASTER OF TEN THOUSAND MOUNTAINS - The artificial and the natural sacred mountain
• THE RITUAL STRUCTURE OF THE TRADITIONAL JAPANESE HOUSE - Or, why the Western architect has difficulties to understand it.
• THE JAPANESE GARDEN A JAPANESE EXAMPLE OF ROMANTICISM? - An extra-ordinary view
• THE MASTER OF THE WILDERNESS, THE BEAR, LIVES IN THE UPPER PART OF OUR HOME - House and world-view among the Ainu in the North of Japan [PDF FORMAT]
• FESTIVAL CALENDAR - The pre-urban time system

AHA5

• JAPAN THE BIG VILLAGE - China school, national history and modern cultural anthropology. Notes on the history of Japanese historical consciousness.
• WHAT WAS FIRST, THE NATURAL OR THE ARTIFICIAL SACRED TREE? The Sacred Trees of Goshonai - A new approach to cognitive anthropology regarding the discovery of natural form [PDF format]
• OHMIHACHIMAN - THE (MEDIEVAL) FOUNDATION OF A TOWN - A cross-cultural theoretical model
• ANTHROPOLOGY OF AESTHETICS: CULTURE AS IDENTITY - Polarity in Art, Lifestyle and Ontology - Japan, a visual and theoretical model [Polar Asymmetry -The evolution of Japanese art from agrarian cult traditions]

AHA6

• THE 'DEEP STRUCTURE' OF ARCHITECTURE - Constructivity and Human Evolution. In PDF format (part 1) (part 2)
• ANTHROP-ARCH - Twisting Venturi - Contradiction creates complexity
• FOUNDATION FOR AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE - What has the Nestbuilding Behavior of the Higher Apes to do with Post-Modern Architecture? [PDF: in Japanese and English]
• ON THE WAY TOWARDS AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF ARCHITECTURE - A critical survey of the modern architect's role from the standpoint of cultural history
• RENE MAGRITTE THE ARCHITECTUROLOGIST - Regarding the complementary structure of architectural space in the paintings of Rene Magritte
• ANTHROP-ART - The re-Creative way to see the world of art
• ARCHITECTURE, MOVEMENT, MIND - The ocean steamer subject in modern architecture
• BOTTA: HISTORY IS MY GOOD FRIEND - Historical misrepresentation as a design principle?
• MARIO BOTTA DECLARES DEFEAT OF POSTMODERNISM - Very negative prophecies by a international star architect
• HOW MUCH HORIZON DOES AN ARCHITECTURAL THEORETICIAN NEED? - Critical remarks regarding the GOOD-FORM-theology of the architectural-doctrine - With reference to the New Years Eve tradition of Urnaesch as a vital tradition of agrarian philosophy and as core element of a traditional architecture and settlement identity
• THE UGLY ONES  AND THE BEAUTIFUL ONES - The New Year's Eve Philosophy of a small Swiss Town (Urnäsch, Appenzell) A Photo Report
• ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM: THE PROBLEMS - The Congress of the 'International Union of Architects' in Barcelona, June/July 1996 - Short report by an architectural anthropologist
• UIA 96 BARCELONA MANIFESTO
• SWITZERLAND's 'NEW URBANITY - 'ART BRUT', POSTMODERN 'PLANNING KITSCH' OR 'NEW ECONOMY'? - Critical Notes regarding Franz Oswald's "Visions" of Switzerland as  'New Las Vegas Wellnessland'

AHA7

• ARCHITECTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE STRUCTURAL VIEW OF DESIGN - Why should we conserve relatively intact Domains of Vernacular Architecture for Future Generations?
• SETTLEMENT CORE COMPLEX AND NUCLEAR DEMARCATION WITH FIBROCONSTRUCTIVE SIGNS - The method of village research
• PLANT AND BLOSSOMPILLARS - Symbolic columns in architecture and cult of Ancient Egypt
• LIFE TREES AND TREES OF COGNITION - The problem of interpreting the rich sources of the Ancient Near East
• THE HOLY PILLAR ON THE FESTIVE CAR - The Babylonian New Year festival - An ethno historical comparison (Nepal, Japan)
• THE SACRED CITY PILLAR OF BANGKOK AND THE SPIRIT HUTS OF THAILAND. Urban forms and rural types
• ASCENDING TO HEAVEN - The function of ritual pillars in shamanism
• FALO - SEMANTIC AND SYMBOLIC ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY - Traditional survivals of neolithic worldviews on the Italian-Peninsula
• RESPLENDENT POLES AND PEST CANDLES. - Semantic architecture in the region around Salzburg, Austria. A folklore report

AHA8

• INTRODUCTION - Searching for Semantic Architecture in the cultural manifold of the Indian Subcontinent
• THE SACRED PILLARS OF HINDU TRADITION IN SOME TEMPLES OF SINGAPORE - Extracts of a travel notebook
• MANGO PILLARS AT VILLAGE HOLI FESTIVALS IN MAHARASHTRA - Indicators of pre-bramahnic times
• THE FOUNDER'S HUT - Identification in a tribal village of the Santhals, Orissa
• TEMPLES AND SACRED PILLARS IN SOUTHERN INDIA - Are the pillars the prototypes of temples?
• GODDESS LAKSHMI - A BUNDLE OF RICE - Glimpses of an agrarian cult in Orissa
• THE TEMPORARY HINDU TEMPLE AND THE CONSTRUCTION AND DECONSTRUCTION OF ITS  PROTOTYPE AT KOVALAM BEACH IN SOUTHERN INDIA  - An illustrated travel report of a surprising Hindu rite
• ANTHROPOLOGY OF AWARENESS - An interview in the Indian Architect and Builder, Nov. 1994
• ARCHITECTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY - A short report on a lecture held at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in New Delhi (Reprint from Vihangama, the IGNCA Newsletter)
• GLOBAL THEORY VERSUS LOCAL THEORY - Village Anthropology in India: Some Critical Remarks

AHA9

• NATURAL SCIENCES AND THE HUMANITIES, MARKET AND EFFICIENCY - Do Asian Studies have the Potential to offer us a new Enlightenment?
• ASIA - COMPETENCE? - A new bone of contention between Enterprise Culture and Cultural Sciences
• ARCHITECTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY - Structure and Method - an Introduction to Research
• THEORY-AND FOR WHOM? - Some notes regarding the construction and function of theories in the field of vernacular architecture
• SOME IMPORTANT REVIEWS AND REPORTS
• THE WORLD'S FIRST ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE PEOPLE - 'The Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World' edited by Paul Oliver - A new global Dictionary of Architectural Ethnology -
• HOMO DOMESTICATUS? - P. J. WILSON'S "THE DOMESTICATION OF THE HUMAN SPECIES" - A methodologically new view on cultural anthropology
• MAN THE MODELING SPECIES - A Commented Reveiw
• ON THE WAY TO ARCHITECTURAL SCIENCE - Notes on the fifth IASTE Conference 14th - 17th December 1996, University of California, at Berkeley
• ARCHISACRA 95 - GLIMPSES INTO THE FUTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES - Report on the International Conference of the IUA, Section Poland, at Warsaw
• DEBATE ABOUT BRUNO TAUT, JAPANESE SACRED SYMBOLS AND APE ARCHITECTS - The art historian's architectural theory at the end of its wits - Report on indications of an educational emergency case at the Institute for the History of Art, Tuebingen, Germany.
• OPEN VIEWS - A Collection of Hypotheses of Architecture- and Habitat Anthropology
• CRITICAL VIEWS ON PRESENT HUMANITIES
• THE URBAN RURAL DICHOTOMY - Do the Humanities live with historistic speculations? A final outlook on Megalopolis- problems
• ARCHITECTURE, SPACE AND SEDENTARY CULTURE -  TOWARDS A GLOBAL ANTHROPOLOGY - Outlines of a Theory of Cultural Evolution based on the architecturally demarcated settlement
• HOW DID PALEO-SIBERIAN HUNTERS AND GATHERERS LIVE IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT?  Reconstructions regarding spatial, aesthetic and metaphysical aspects of Ainuculture in the North of Japan (Scientific Publications of the Neanderthal Museum, Mettmann, Germany)
• HABITAT RESEARCH TOWARDS A HABITAT ANTHROPOLOGY OR HABITAT THEORY OF CULTURE
• THE CRISIS OF POST-MODERN  ANTHROPOLOGY AND NEW APPROACHES TOWARDS AN OMNIDISCIPLINARY CRITICAL AND SYSTEMATIC 'SCIENCE OF MAN' - Notes related to the anthropological seminar 'Between Reflexivity and Social Critique - for an Anthropology of the 21st Century
• HISTORY BUBBLE - The urban-rural Dichotomy - Are the disciplinary humanities widely an Eurocentric historistic construct?
• GALAPAGOS - An Interstellar Correspondence
• ANTHROPOLOGY OF HABITAT AND ARCHITECTURE - A new Survey
• ARCHITECTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY - An Encyclopedic Contribution to Anthropology
• OPENING ARCHITECTURAL HORIZONS TOWARDS RURAL DEPTHS AND TRUTHS - Arguments against the elitarian construct of the history of architecture
• CONCEPTS OF ARCHITCTURAL INTERPRETATION IN THE FRAMEWORK OF RECENT ETHNOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH INTO THE EVOLUTION OF ARCHITECTURE

 

• PRACTICAL ADVICES FOR A PLURIDISCIPLINARY VIEW OF CULTURE
• CONFERENCES AND THEIR FUNCTION IN THE BUILDUP OF A NEW PLURIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH METHOD
• LECTURING IN ARCHITECTURE AND HABITAT ANTHROPOLOGY
• ICONIC DATA RELATED TO ARCHITECTURE AND HABITAT ANTHROPOLOGY
• SLIDE SHOW OF SEMANTIC ARCHITECTURE OF JAPAN
• DOCUMENTARY MOVIE - About ancient ways of building Sanctuaries in Japan
• RECOMMENDED LITERATURE
• INSTRUCTION MATERIALS FOR ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELDWORK - Manuals and Questionnaires for cross-cultural Settlement/ Village Studies among Traditional Societies (gatherer/hunters, agrarian) You need Acrobat Reader for -> PDF FORMATE!)
• BABYLONIAN SCIENCE - The Calamity of the Superficial: Critical Notes on Kenneth E. Foote's bookreview on Architectural Anthropology
• THE MYSTERIOUS MUSEUMS GIFT - An anthropological Report between Science and Fiction (Radio Play)
• SOME IMPORTANT ADRESSES- Associations related to Architectural Ethnology, Architectural Anthropology, Habitat Research
• DISCUSSION LIST - Archived from e-mail lists
• EVALUATIONS / REPORTS FOR SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS [1], [2]
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