Architecture and Order; Editor: Pearson, Michael P.; Editor: Richards, Colin; Paperback

Editor: Pearson, Michael P.; Editor: Richards, Colin
New ed; Paperback; 70 B&w Photographs
260 pages
Published: April 1997
Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN: 0415157439
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Architecture and Order draws on the work of archaeologists, social theorists and architects to explore the way in which people relate to the architecture which surrounds them. The contributors discuss the development of an archaeological language used both to describe architecture's symbolic use of space and to further define the discipline's interaction with architecture and anthropology. Along with architectural case studies, the contributors examine everything from studies of huntergatherer camp organization to the use of space in classical and medieval worlds, and draw simultaneously upon aspects of social, psychiatric and architectural theory in the process. Topics discussed include Neolithic houses and tombs; perceptions of architecture, space and time; defining domestic spArchitecture is a powerful medium for representing, ordering and classifying the world; meaning may be created and reworked by defining symbolic boundaries, analogues and metaphors. This volume explores aspects of social, psychiatric and architectural theory.