Anasazi Architecture and American Design

by Morrow, Baker H.

• ISBN13: 9780826317797
• ISBN10: 0826317790
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

Anasazi Architecture and American Designis 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. Among the contributors are Santa Clara Pueblo architectural theorist Rina Swentzell; architects Tony Anella and Stephen Schreiber; historian Richard Ellis; art historian J. J. Brody; archaeologists Stephen Lekson, David Stuart, Michael Marshall, John Stein, and Dabney Ford; urban planners Theodore Jojola, Judith Suiter, Stephen Dent, Barbara Coleman, and Paul Lusk; and artist Anna Sofaer, founder of the Solstice Project.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Preface
Prologue	p. 1
Archaeology, Architecture, and the Anasazi
The Rhetoric of Formalism: Interpreting Anasazi Architecture	p. 5
The Changing Image of the Anasazi World in the American Imagination	p. 16
The Patterns of Settlement
Anasazi Communities in Context	p. 27
Power and Efficiency in Eastern Anasazi Architecture: A Case of Multiple Evolutionary Trajectories	p. 36
A Planners' Primer: Lessons from Chaco	p. 53
The Chacoan Roads: A Cosmological Interpretation	p. 62
Stone and Mortar in the Service of the Imagination
Engineering Feats of the Anasazi: Buildings, Roads, and Dams	p. 77
The Primary Architecture of the Chacoan Culture: A Cosmological Expression	p. 88
High Noon in Old Bonito: Sun, Shadow, and the Geometry of the Chaco Complex	p. 133
Prehistoric Architecture with Unknown Function	p. 149
Notes on the Landscape Architecture of Anasazi Communities	p. 159
Regional Tradition and Architectural Meaning
Pueblo Indian and Spanish Town Planning in New Mexico: The Pueblo of Isleta	p. 171
An Understated Sacredness	p. 186
The Anasazi Revival	p. 190
Learning from Mesa Verde: A Case Study in the Modern Interpretation of Anasazi Design	p. 204
Anasazi-Pueblo Site Design: Application to Contemporary Urban Development	p. 214
Epilogue	p. 227
Contributors	p. 231
Index	p. 233
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