This title was first pulished in 2000: This book brings together anthropologists, architects, psychologists, political and environmental scientists and landscape architects to discuss Amos Rapoport’s seminal work on the cultural significance of the built environment.

Introduction. Theoretical Inquiry: On the importance of theory; Amos Rapoport: scholar, conscience and citizen of the environment and behaviour field; House form and culture: what have we learnt in thirty years?; The new functionalism and architectural theory. Architectural Education: Studious questions; Amos Rapoport: modernism’s apologist?; The architect as artist or scientist?: a modest proposal for the architect-as-cultivator; Studious questions, studio responses. Architectural Anthropology: Culture and built form - a reconsideration; Journey of self-discovery: from complexity to street encounters and beyond; Culture, politics, and the plaza: an ethnographic approach to the study of urban public spaces in Latin America; Mnemonic meanings of the American capitol; The cultural revolution in architecture.