Anasazi Architecture and American Design
- ISBN-10
- 0826317790
- ISBN-13
- 9780826317797
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 268
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- UNM Press
- Authors
- Vincent Barrett Price, Baker H. Morrow
Description
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.
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