Amos Rapoport

Amos Rapoport (28 March 1929, Warsaw) is a psychologist, professor, architect and one of the founders of Environment-Behavior Studies (EBS).[1] He is the author of over 200 academic publications in this field, including books that have been translated into foreign languages, including French, Spanish, German, Persian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.[2] He has held honorable and visiting positions in many universities around the globe, is professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.[3]

His work has focused mainly on the role of cultural variables, cross-cultural studies, and theory development and synthesis. His influential book House Form and Culture explores how culture, human behavior, and the environment affect house form.

  1. ^ Ingold, Tim (2002) Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Taylor & Francis
  2. ^ TU Darmstadt: "Public Lecture of the Australian / American Architectural anthropologist Prof. Amos Rapoport" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, 2010, retrieved 9 August 2015
  3. ^ Caves, R. W. (2004). Encyclopedia of the City. Routledge. pp. 556. ISBN 9780415252256.

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