ARCHITECTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

OVERVIEW

Submitted to : Sir Saad Mujahid

Submitted by : Fyza Saeed
Anam Iftikhar
Hammad Sheikh
Khurram
ANTHROPOLOGY
 “The study of human race, especially of its origins, development,
customs and beliefs.”
 “ The study of human beings and their ancestors through time and
space and in relation to physical character, environmental and
social relations and culture.”

From
Early 20th Franz Boaz Institutional
Century “ Living among development to
people and learning how
Ethnography
questioning they fit to create
(Field Work) them.” a functional
society

Today Anthropologists are seeking new ways to re-evaluate old problems by applying
ethnographic methods to modern people in today’s globalizing world.
 TYPES OF ANTHROPOLOGY
 Archeology: A way to see and learn about past human
culture through the analysis of the material remains. Archaeologists
may also observe bones and teeth to learn about a civilization’s diet and
the diseases they faced.

 Cultural Anthropology: They study how humans

make a living or organize the world. They explore how different groups
of people, even within one country or society, live and understand the
world.

 Linguistic Anthropology: It is a study which deals

with the role of language around the globe and many ways in which
people communicate.

 Biological Anthropology: It is the study that deals with

how human evolved from there earlier life's.
ARCHITECTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY :
 How does the materiality of a built form in its’s great variety make
people and society and what does it do socially?
 Theories on development of architecture and their interpretations.

 How the evolution of culture is closely related to objects through

the years.
 Clarifying the factual complexity of the architectural domain in
regard to the human conditions.
 ARCHITECTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
 Architectural anthropology considers the relationship between people, culture and
the built environment.
 Study of anthropology guides an architect to relate the architectural aspects of a
building to the people who will inhabit the building.
 An architect uses anthropology to understand how architecture influences peoples,
how it makes people, how it shapes them and how it sustains social relations
between people.
 Anthropology bridges the architectural aspects of building such as techniques of
construction, types of buildings, environmental conditions, resources, technology
and aspects of organization of space to the social and cultural facts of those who
will be using the building.
 An architect has to observe the elements of the culture of a people such as their
religion and its influence to their lives and their social norms.
 These cultural elements drive the people’s way of life and ultimately influence
their choices in relation to the buildings which they inhabit.
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 Explaining different structures and the factors for their
differentiation on structural terms and use.
 Factors explaining the assembly in terms of structural stability,
material use and form for preferences according to the living
conditions. (may include the climatic variations)
 Aspects of security in both conditions.
REFERENCES :
 Encyclopedia of Anthropology edited by H. James Birx, Sage Publications 2006, Thousand Oaks/ London/ New
Delhi.
 An anthropology of Architecture, Victor Buchli
 https://www.academia.edu/33493135/Architectural_Anthropology_Developing_a_methodological_framework_for_In
digenous_wellbeing
 https://www.academia.edu/7304841/Importance_of_anthropology_in_architecture
 MACAT library