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.
Brief description: V. B. Price is a noted New Mexican poet and journalist--and more. He is a member of the faculty of the University of New Mexico's Honors College, former editor of the Mary Burritt Christensen Poetry Series at the University of New Mexico Press, and an adjunct associate professor at the UNM School of Architecture and Planning. He is a cofounder of the online publication New Mexico Mercury and the author of several books, including The Orphaned Land: New Mexico's Environment Since the Manhattan Project.
Review Quotes: ""Anasazi Architecture and American Design is a provocative contribution to the study of prehistoric Puebloan buildings. . . . this is a stimulating book that should promote innovative directions in the study of prehistoric Southwest architecture."