“With this excellent book, Victor Buchli reminds us of the multitude of ways in which architecture becomes meaningful to us, whoever we are and wherever we live. Informative, insightful and engaging, it should be essential reading for all those interested in the anthropological study of architecture.”——Marcel Vellinga, Reader in Anthropology of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University, UK
“This book presents a long overdue and much needed synthesis of anthropological approaches to the study of architecture. Professor Buchli situates a wide variety of ethnographic case studies in historically and philosophically grounded theoretical frameworks with which he provocatively challenges anthropologists to reconsider the materiality of the built environment.”——Denise Lawrence-Zuniga, Professor, Department of Architecture, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California, USA
