The Meaning of the Built Environment by Amos Rapoport

The Meaning of the Built Environment by Amos Rapoport

Rapoport is concerned with the meanings which buildings, their contents, and their inhabitants convey, and the conclusions which can be drawn therefrom for procedures of architectural design to satisfy the people who will ultimately live in these buildings. . . . A challenging book on a subject that has had insufficient attention in the past.aMan and Environment
Fills a significant gap: it introduces the notion of environmental meaning so clearly that no reader will doubt the basic premise that the environment holds meaning as part of a cultural system of symbols, and influences our actions and our determinations of social order.aDesign Book Review
This is the second edition of a book first published in 1982. . . . Enthusiastic and inquiring as the reader is brought into the writer's thought processes.aProgress in Human Geography (England)
It has merits not to be found in any other book in this much-discussed and little understood subject, to wit: it is short, it is simple, and it is useful. It is even, in parts, entertaining.a book which will help architects to do their job better. aArchitecture Australia

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ISBN 13	9780816511761
ISBN 10	0816511764
Title	The Meaning of the Built Environment
Author	Amos Rapoport
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Arizona Press
Year published	1990-04-30
Number of pages	253
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