Anasazi Architecture and American Design [Hardcover]

Baker H. Morrow (Editor), V. B. Price (Editor), Robert C. Heyder (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1997

Take a fascinating journey through Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde with leading southwestern archaeologists, historians, architects, artists, and urban planners as guides. Twenty-two essays identify Anasazi building and cultural features related to design and site planning, history, mythology, and ecology. 40 halftones. 5 maps .

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

A journey through Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde balancing observations of past architectural and cultural achievements with suggestions and recommendations for design practices in the present. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Baker H. Morrow, FASLA, is a landscape architect in Albuquerque and an associate professor at the University of New Mexico. He is also the author of Horses Like the Wind (stories of Africa). He is the founding director of the master's program in landscape architecture at the University of New Mexico.

V. B. Price is the recipient of the Arts Alliance Bravo Award for Excellence in Literary Arts, the Erna Fergusson Award for Outstanding Achievement from the Alumni Association of the University of New Mexico, and the ACLU-NM First Amendment Award. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press; 1st edition (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0826317782
• ISBN-13: 978-0826317780
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,893,318 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)