MH4004 Anthropology and Architecture Syllabus:
MH4004 Anthropology and Architecture Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
OBJECTIVES:
To understand the relationship between society and the making of the built environment.
To understand phenomenology and the role of meaning in built form.
To look at place making from the architectural as well as urban design point of view.
UNIT I RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CULTURE, SOCIETY, ANTHROPOLOGY AND ARCHITECTURE
Concepts of culture, society, politics and anthropology – relation between society and built environment – introduction to cultural anthropology view of architecture.
UNIT II ANTHROPOLOGY OF TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE
Architecture as a Process – kinship and house societies – perceptions of built form – conceptions of space – symbolism and technology – study of the above through case study of traditional architecture in India, Asia and Africa.
UNIT III ANTHROPOLOGY AND PLACE MAKING
Conditions of modernity –Fragmentation of society – Heidegger and notions of dwelling – C Noeberg Schultz and notions of Genius Loci Rapoport and studies on the meaning of built environment – Joseph Rykwert and the idea of house – Bollnow and idea of space – Jan Pieper and the notions of sacred space.
UNIT IV AN OVER VIEW OF URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY
Meaning of urban studies and urban anthropology – role of cities – urban ethnography, primary units, major components and units of integration – anthropology and contemporary urban issues.
UNIT V SEMINAR
Students would make presentations exploring the relevance and impact of anthropological studies on contemporary architecture and design through readings/case studies. The proposal must be discussed with course faculty prior to presentation.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES
CO1 A comprehensive understanding of architecture and urbanism as expressions of particular societies in time and place.
REFERENCES
1. Claire Melhuish (ed); Architecture and Anthropology – AD Vol 66 No 11/12 Nov – 1996
2. Edwin James; Anthropology of the City; Prentice Hall; 1977.
3. F Bollnow; Mann, Bensch and Raum, Stuttgart; 1963.
4. J Carstern and S H Jones; About the house: Levi Strauss and Beyond; Cambrige University Press; 1955.
5. Joseph Rykwert – Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome; 1976.
6. Joseph Rykwert; On Adams house in Paradise; MIT Press 1987
7. Nold Egenter; The review of the Primitive in Architecture – Architectural Anthropology – Research Series Vol. I and II; Structura Mundi; 1992 and 1996.
8. Roxanna Wasterson; The living House Anthropology of Architecture in S E Asia; Oxford Press.