Native American Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Native American Architecture write by Peter Nabokov. This book was released on 1990-10-25. Native American Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For many people, Native American architecture calls to mind the wigwam, tipi, iglu, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building traditions of Native Americans encompass much more, including specific structures for sleeping, working, worshipping, meditating, playing, dancing, lounging, giving birth, decision-making, cleansing, storing and preparing food, caring for animals, and honoring the dead. In effect, the architecture covers all facets of Indian life. The collaboration between an architect and an anthropologist, Native American Architecture presents the first book-length, fully illustrated exploration of North American Indian architecture to appear in over a century. Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton together examine the building traditions of the major tribes in nine regional areas of the continent from the huge plank-house villages of the Northwest Coast to the moundbuilder towns and temples of the Southeast, to the Navajo hogans and adobe pueblos of the Southwest. Going beyond a traditional survey of buildings, the book offers a broad, clear view into the Native American world, revealing a new perspective on the interaction between their buildings and culture. Looking at Native American architecture as more than buildings, villages, and camps, Nabokov and Easton also focus on their use of space, their environment, their social mores, and their religious beliefs. Each chapter concludes with an account of traditional Indian building practices undergoing a revival or in danger today. The volume also includes a wealth of historical photographs and drawings (including sixteen pages of color illustrations), architectural renderings, and specially prepared interpretive diagrams which decode the sacred cosmology of the principal house types.
Contemporary Native American Architecture
Contemporary Native American Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary Native American Architecture write by Carol Herselle Krinsky. This book was released on 1996. Contemporary Native American Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why, during the past thirty years, has there been a dramatic change in architecture by and for Native Americans? How does it reflect the revival of language and the renewal and invention of dance, music, and other performance, and the remarkable burst of creativity in Native American novels and poetry? And since architecture requires technical expertise and money, how does this change reflect alterations in the economic, legal, and political situation of American Indians in the past decades? At no other time since the European invasions have the Native nations been as determined to set their own agendas for building or been as successful in reaching their architectural goals. They now claim authority in planning what they need for modern life - office buildings, schools, clinics, religious and community structures, urban cultural centers, houses, and museums, even commercial buildings and casinos. Those agendas often include strategies for making sure that the buildings are culturally appropriate or focus on collective decisions that embody community values brought from the past to the present. In Contemporary Native American Architecture, Carol Herselle Krinsky examines the historical and legal background of this movement of cultural regeneration through the medium of architecture, and records responses of Native Americans to ever-changing cultural situations.
The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture
The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture write by Elizabeth Grant. This book was released on 2018-06-26. The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Handbook provides the first comprehensive international overview of significant contemporary Indigenous architecture, practice, and discourse, showcasing established and emerging Indigenous authors and practitioners from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, Canada, USA and other countries. It captures the breadth and depth of contemporary work in the field, establishes the historical and present context of the work, and highlights important future directions for research and practice. The topics covered include Indigenous placemaking, identity, cultural regeneration and Indigenous knowledges. The book brings together eminent and emerging scholars and practitioners to discuss and compare major projects and design approaches, to reflect on the main issues and debates, while enhancing theoretical understandings of contemporary Indigenous architecture.The book is an indispensable resource for scholars, students, policy makers, and other professionals seeking to understand the ways in which Indigenous people have a built tradition or aspire to translate their cultures into the built environment. It is also an essential reference for academics and practitioners working in the field of the built environment, who need up-to-date knowledge of current practices and discourse on Indigenous peoples and their architecture.
Navajo Architecture
Navajo Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Navajo Architecture write by Stephen C. Jett. This book was released on 2017. Navajo Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Complete explication of hogan and house forms, root forms, summer structures and more make this possibly the most complete study ever made of the folk architecture of a tribal society to date.
New Architecture on Indigenous Lands
New Architecture on Indigenous Lands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Architecture on Indigenous Lands write by Joy Monice Malnar. This book was released on 2013. New Architecture on Indigenous Lands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New Architecture on Indigenous Lands takes readers on a virtual tour of recent Native building projects in Canada and the western and midwestern United States. With close attention to details of design, questions of tradition, and cultural issues, and through interviews with designers and their Native clients, it provides an in-depth introduction to the new Native architecture in its many guises.
