This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together. In order to fully grasp the relationship between human beings and their built environments and design more livable and sustainable buildings and cities in the future, we need new cross-disciplinary approaches combining anthropology and architecture. This is neither anthropology of architecture, nor ethn...(展开全部)

What kinds of expertise and knowledge relate to electricity, and where is the space for alternative voices? How can the new roles for electricity in social and cultural life be acknowledged? How can we speak about ‘it’ in its own right while acknowledging that electricity is not one thing? This book re-describes electricity and its infrastructures using insights from anthropolo...(展开全部)

Within a relatively short time, urban anthropology has emerged as one of the most vital fields of anthropology. During its formative period, however, it has lacked intellectual coherence. Exploring the Cityis a bold first attempt to provide just such a coherent and unified theoretical understanding of urbanism. Hannerz draws upon the urban perspectives of other disciplines as ...(展开全部)

费慰梅(Wilma Fairbank，1909—2002)研究中国古代艺术与建筑的美国学者，出身哈佛世家，是美国著名汉学家费正清(John King Fairbank)的夫人；抗日战争期间，曾在重庆任美国驻华使馆文化参赞。 费正清夫妇与五四时期的知识精英交往甚密。他们来到中国后大约约两个月，便遇到了梁思成和林徽因，一见如故。费正清夫妇的中文名字，即由梁思成所取。这两对夫妇亦成为终身好友。 同为艰难乱世的亲历者，兼具亲密挚友的特殊身份，费慰梅也许是最有资格讲述林徽因与梁思成传奇故事的人。

Wilma and her husband, John King Fairbank, Harvard University's eminent historian of modern China, were lifelong friends of Liang and Lin. Foreword by Jonathan Spence

费慰梅(Wilma Fairbank，1909—2002)研究中国古代艺术与建筑的美国学者，出身哈佛世家，是美国著名汉学家费正清(John King Fairbank)的夫人；抗日战争期间，曾在重庆任美国驻华使馆文化参赞。 费正清夫妇与五四时期的知识精英交往甚密。他们来到中国后大约约两个月，便遇到了梁思成和林徽因，一见如故。费正清夫妇的中文名字，即由梁思成所取。这两对夫妇亦成为终身好友。 同为艰难乱世的亲历者，兼具亲密挚友的特殊身份，费慰梅也许是最有资格讲述林徽因与梁思成传奇故事的人。

Ecology is the study of the relationship between organisms and their environment. Through their teaching at the Architectural Association, the editors have shown how this definition also suits the discipline of architecture surprisingly well. Correlating morphogenesis and ecology, they have developed a new framework for architectural design that is firmly rooted within a biolog...(展开全部)

Landscape has long had a submerged presence within anthropology, both as a framing device which informs the way the anthropologist brings his or her study into "view", and as the meaning imputed by local people to their cultural and physical surroundings. A principal aim of this volume follows from these interconnected ways of considering landscape: the conventional, Western n...(展开全部)

Landscape has long had a submerged presence within anthropology, both as a framing device which informs the way the anthropologist brings his or her study into "view", and as the meaning imputed by local people to their cultural and physical surroundings. A principal aim of this volume follows from these interconnected ways of considering landscape: the conventional, Western n...(展开全部)

Integrating psychological theories with empirical evidence, the author of this volume draws fundamental conclusions about the nature and types of relationships, and develops eight dimensions of relatedness ranging from the very casual to the deeply intimate. Each chapter examines a particular dimension and includes a brief life history of a person interviewed by the author. Pa...(展开全部)