RECOMMENDED READING

This contains a short list of recommended books and articles which are essential for the field of Architectural Anthropology and Habitat Research. The list will be upgraded regularly.

ARCHITECTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Approaches towards scientific architectural research and its impacts on architectural design

By Nold Egenter


1. THEORY

(primary importance)


Andrae, Walter
1930
Das Gotteshaus und die Urformen des Bauens im Alten Orient. Studien zur Bauforschung, Heft 2 Berlin
1933
Die ionische Säule, Bauform oder Symbol? Studien zur Bauforschung, Heft 2 Berlin

Bollnow, O.F.
1963
Mensch und Raum. Stuttgart

Egenter, Nold
1980b
Bauform als Zeichen und Symbol (built form as sign and symbol; non domestic architecture built in Japanese folk cults; an architectural-ethnological survey, documented on 100 villages of Central Japan). ETH, Zürich
1982a
Sacred Symbols of Reed and Bamboo; Annually built cult-torches as spatial signs and symbols. Swiss Asiatic Studies Monographs vol.4, Zürich
1987a
Kenchiku-jinruigaku o mezashite. Posuto-modan kenchiku to jinruien ni yoru suzukuri; Foundation for an Anthropological Theory of Architecture - What has the Nest-building Behavior ot the Higher Apes to do with Post- Modern Architecture? In: A+U (Architecture and Urbanism) Feb. 1987, No. 197 Tokyo
1990k
Evolutionary Architecture: Nestbuilding Among Higher Apes. In: >International Semiotic Spectrum<, A Publication of the Toronto Semiotic Circle, Nr. 14, Sept. 1990 1990l
Architectural Anthropology. In: >International Semiotic Spectrum<, A Publication of the Toronto Semiotic Circle, Nr. 14, Sept. 1990
1992
Architectural Anthropology - Research Series. Vol. 1: >The present Relevance of the Primitive in Architecture<. (3 languages: English, German, French). Ed. Structura Mundi, Lausanne (CH)
1994a
Semantic architecture and the interpretation of prehistoric rock art: An ethno-(pre-)historical approach. In >Semiotica<100-2/4 (1994), 201-266
1994b
Architectural Anthropology: Semantic and Symbolic Architecture. An architectural-ethnological survey into 100 villages of central Japan. Ed. Structura Mundi, Lausanne
1995
Architectural Anthropology - Research Series. Vol. 2: Foundations for Research into Architectural Anthropology. Ed. Structura Mundi, Lausanne

Eliade, Mircea
1958
Patterns in Comparative Religion. London
1961
The Sacred and the Profane. London, New York

Frey, Dagobert
1949
Grundlegungen zu einer vergleichenden Kunstwissenschaft. Wien, Innsbruck

Rapoport, A.
1969
House Form and Culture. Englewood-Cliffs, N.J.

Rykwert, Joseph
1972
On Adam's House in paradise. The Idea of the primitive Hut in Architectural History. New York

Soeder, Hans
1964
Urformen der abendländischen Baukunst in Italien und dem Alpenraum. Köln


2. MATERIALS

(secondary importance)

Carswell J.W./Saile D.G. (ed.)
1986
Purposes in Built Form and Culture Research. Proceedings of the 1986 International Conference on Built Form and Culture Research: Purposes in Understanding Socio-Cultural Aspects of Built Environments, 5-8 Nov. at the Univ. of Kansas

Cataldi, Gian-Carlo (ed.)
1986
All'Origine dell'Abitare. Florence
1988
Le Ragioni dell'Abitare/Les Raisons d'Habiter (Italian and French); Florence
1989a
Tipologie Primitive; 2. America; Florence
1989b
Attualita del Primitivo e del Tradizionale in Architettura; Florence

Egenter, Nold
1986b
Der Historismus der quantifizierten Proportion (the historism of quantified proportion; critical objections towards Wittkower's 'Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism'). Paper read at the second international and interdisciplinary forum on 'built form and culture research' Lawrence, Univ. of Kansas
1989a
Japanese Rice-Culture. The misjudged philosophy of agrarian prehistory. In Swissair-Gazette, Zurich, Feb.
1989c
Botta: La storia e mia buon amica; Mistificazioni della storia a mo' di principi compositivi? (Botta - History is a good friend of mine. Falsification of history as design-principle?) In: Gian-Carlo Cataldi (ed.): Attualita del Primitivo e del Tradizionale in Architettura. ALINEA editrice, Florence
1989d
Architecture, Movement, Mind. Paper read on July 8th 1989 at the opening of the >International Center of Anthropology Motovun< (ICAM) at Motovun, Istria, Yougoslavia
1989e
The Master of the Wilderness, the Bear, lives in the upper Part of our Home - House and World-view of the Ainu. Paper read at the Third International and Interdisciplinary Forum of Built Form and Culture Research, 9 - 12 Nov. 1989, The School of Architecture, the Department of Anthropology and the Hispanic Research Center at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
1990c
Magritte als 'Architekturologe'. Zur Bedeutung gebauter Environments im sogenannten Surrealismus (René Magritte as >architecturologist<. The Meaning of built environments, a spatial interpretation of so called 'Surrealism'). In: Archithese 1/1990
1990g
Architectural Anthropology - Why do we need a general framework? Paper read on the theme >First World - Third World; Duality and Coincidence in Traditional Dwellings and Settlements< at the Second International Conference of the >International Assoc. for the Study of Traditional Environments<, Oct. 4 - 7, Univ. of California, Berkeley
1990i
Rivestimento - Incrostazione - Metabolismo della Forma nell'opera die Gottfried Semper e Applicazione della sua Tesi principale nella recente Ricerca anthropologica architetturale (Clothing - Incrustation - Metabolism of Form in the work of Gottfried Semper and the Application of his basic Theory in recent Research into Architectural Anthropology); In: A. Ambrosi, E. Degano, C.A. Zaccaria (ed.): Architettura in Pietra a Secco; Atti del primo Seminario Internazionale 'Architettura in Pietra a Secco', SCHENA EDITORE, Fasano, Bari, Italia
1991b
IE - Der homogene Raum und der Archetyp des polar harmonischen Raums. Kulturanthropologisch vergleichende Betrachtungen zum traditionellen japanischen Wohnhaus und zum westlichen Konzept 'allgemeinmenschliche Bedürfnisse'. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung 12/1991

Foy, Guy Philippart de
1984
Les Pygmées d'Afrique Centrale. Collection Architectures traditionnelles; Parenthèses. Marseille

Jumsai, Sumet
1988
Naga - Cultural Origins in Siam and the West Pacific. Oxford, Singapore

Ludwig, Th.M.
1983
Unraveling Folk Shinto through Architectural Symbols (Bookreview). In: History of Religions 1983/3,:89-92

Müller, Werner
1961
Die Heilige Stadt. Stuttgart

Norberg-Schulz, Christian
1963
Intentions in Architecture. London
1971
Existence, Space and Architecture, London

Saile, D.G. (ed.)
1986
Architecture and Cultural Change: Essays in Built Form and Culture Research. School of Architecture and Urban Design, University of Kansas

University of Kansas, The
1984a
Built Form and Culture Studies. An illustrated description of Built Form and Culture Studies in the School of Architecture and Urban Design, Univ. of Kansas (Rev. May 1985, Oct. 1986)
1984b
Built Form and Culture Research. Approaches and Implications in the Study of Socio-cultural Aspecs of Built Environments. Abstracts and participants of the First International and Interdisciplinary Conference 18-20 Oct.
1986
Built Form and Culture Research. Purposes in Understanding Socio-Cultural Aspects of Built Environments; Program of Events of the International and Interdisciplinary Conference, Nov. 5.-8. 1986


3. GOOD TO KNOW

Acquier, Jean Louis
1986
Le Burundi. Collection Architectures traditionnelles; Parenthèses. Marseille

AlSayyad, Nezar/Bourdier, Jean-Paul (ed.)
1989 f.
Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Working Paper Series, ca 40 vols.; Berkeley

Blümmel, M.-V.
1984
Egenter Nold. Göttersitze aus Schilf und Bambus (Bookreview). In Asian Folklore Studies. Vol. XLIII-1, Nagoya

Center for Environmental Design Research
1989f.
Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review. Journal of the Int. Assoc. for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), Berkeley

Egenter, Nold
1981a
Folkfestivals as a Gateway to Japanese Culture (and other related articles) Swissair-Gazette Nr. 8:1,7-17,22-26
1984a
Kunsthistorische Architekturtheorie: Auf Sand gebaut (the art historian's architectural theory - built on sand; an approach towards architectural-anthropological semantics). In: Umriss 1+2/1984, Vienna
1986a
Software for a soft prehistory; structural history and structural ergology as applied to a type of universally distributed 'soft industry': sacred territorial demarcation signs made of non durable organic materials. The World Archaeological Congress, (precirculated papers), Southampton and London

Oliver, Paul (ed.)
1971
Shelter in Africa. London
1975
Shelter, Sign and Symbol. London
1996
Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World. 4 vols. London (in preparation)

Oliver, Paul
1969
Shelter and Society, London
1987
Dwellings; The House across the World. Oxford

PAPER People And Physical Environment Research.
1998 ff.
The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Person-Environment Studies (Official periodic publication of the association) University of Sydney, Australia

Prussin, Labelle
1969
Architecture in Northern Ghana. Berkeley/Los Angeles

Seignobos, Christian
1982
Nord Cameroun. Montagnes et Hautes Terres. Collection Architectures traditionnelles; Parentheses. Marseille

TRADITIONAL DWELLINGS AND SETTLEMENTS REVIEW
1988 ff.
Journal of the >International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), Berkeley, Calif. USA

TRADITIONAL DWELLINGS AND SETTLEMENTS WORKING PAPER SERIES
1988 ff
Centre for Environmental Design Research, Berkeley, Calif. USA


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