Anasazi Architecture and American Design

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Baker H. Morrow, V. B. Price
UNM Press, 1997 - Architecture - 241 pages
Take a fascinating journey through Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde with leading southwestern archaeologists, historians, architects, artists, and urban planners as guides. Twenty-two essays identify Anasazi building and cultural features related to design and site planning, history, mythology, and ecology. 40 halftones. 5 maps.
 

Contents

Prologue
1
The Changing Image of the Anasazi World in the American
16
Anasazi Communities in Context
27
Lessons from Chaco
53
A Cosmological Interpretation
62
An Understated Sacredness
186
A Case Study
204
Epilogue
227
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About the author (1997)

Baker H. Morrow is the author or editor of many books, including the coedited Anasazi Architecture and American Design and Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest. A practicing landscape architect in Albuquerque for more than forty years, he is the founder and a professor of practice in the landscape architecture program at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico. V.B.PriceisanotedNewMexicanpoetandjournalist--andmore.HeisamemberofthefacultyoftheUniversityofNewMexico'sHonorsCollege, formereditoroftheMaryBurrittChristensenPoetrySeriesattheUniversityofNewMexicoPress, andanadjunctassociateprofessorattheUNMSchoolofArchitectureandPlanning.HeisacofounderoftheonlinepublicationNewMexicoMercuryandtheauthorofseveralbooks, includingTheOrphanedLand: NewMexico'sEnvironmentSincetheManhattanProject. V. B. Price is a noted New Mexican poet and journalist—and more. He is a member of the faculty of the University of New Mexico’s Honors College, former editor of the Mary Burritt Christensen Poetry Series at the University of New Mexico Press, and an adjunct associate professor at the UNM School of Architecture and Planning. He is a cofounder of the online publication New Mexico Mercury and the author of several books, including The Orphaned Land: New Mexico’s Environment Since the Manhattan Project.

Bibliographic information

TitleAnasazi Architecture and American Design
EditorsBaker H. Morrow, V. B. Price
Editionillustrated
PublisherUNM Press, 1997
ISBN0826317790, 9780826317797
Length241 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Architecture / Criticism
Architecture / General
Architecture / History / General
Architecture / History / Prehistoric
Social Science / Archaeology
Social Science / Indigenous Studies
Social Science / Native American Studies
  
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