Description
Anasazi Architecture and American Design is a journey through Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde with leading southwestern archaeologists, historians, architects, landscape architects, artists, and urban planners as guides. In sixteen chapters, the volume's twenty-two essayists identify Anasazi building and cultural features related to design and site planning, cosmography, mythology, and ecology, then expertly balance their observations of past architectural and cultural achievements with suggestions and recommendations for design practices in the present.Details
- Editors: Baker H. Morrow and V.B. Price
- Paperback: 271 pages
- Publisher: University of New Mexico Press; First Edition edition (November 1, 1997)
- ISBN-10: 0826317790
- Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches
About the Artist
Baker H. Morrow, FASLA, is a landscape architect in Albuquerque and a professor at the University of New Mexico. He is the author or editor of several books and is also the founding director of the master's program in landscape architecture at the University of New Mexico.
V. B. Price is an award-winning Albuquerque journalist, poet, novelist, and teacher.
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