1) Everybody familiar with principles of science knows that a field of phenomena can only produce reliable knowledge if it is known as a whole. You cannot be called a zoologist if you just love butterflies. Similarly, architecture is defined and discussed with extremely subjective aesthetic concepts. In addition as 'high architecture' it is distinguished by value judgements from its genetic substrate, that is, traditional buildings. These absolutely unscientific conditions are responsible for th../MORE

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1) Everybody familiar with principles of science knows that a field of phenomena can only produce reliable knowledge if it is known as a whole. You cannot be called a zoologist if you just love butterflies. Similarly, architecture is defined and discussed with extremely subjective aesthetic concepts. In addition as 'high architecture' it is distinguished by value judgements from its genetic substrate, that is, traditional buildings. These absolutely unscientific conditions are responsible for the ever changing 'styles' in present urban landscapes. 2) In the anthropological framework architecture is defined as "all what humans and their biological precursors built and build". With this definition the non-scientific value distinction of 'high' architecture and 'low' (traditional) building is omitted. Pseudo-'theories' based on subjective taste or social hierarchies are excluded. 3) Objectively the domain of architecture is classified into 5 classes: -> http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/004PosterAA4.jpg • Hominoid (or subhuman) architecture: nestbuilding (groundnests) of Great Apes (Pongids). -> http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/00AA2_Apes_Nests0_TT.html • Semantic architecture: 'fibroconstructive' toposemantic signs and/or categorically polar symbols autonomously produce basic characteristics of art and architecture like geometry, vertical tectonics, aesthetics (PRO-portion, harmony of opposites) creation of the general above the particular ('meta-physics), etc.. In the framework of architectural anthropology 'semantic architecture' can be considered as a basic factor in the elementary creation of cultural values. -> http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/015AcrobatArchives/SSA.PDF/SSA2.PDF -> http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/E/000index.html • Domestic architecture now becomes a secondary formation in human architecture. The so called 'shelter-theory' reveals as functional retroprojection. The traditional house is a synthesis of semantic architectures combined to form a unity (roof, fire, hearth, gate etc.). Such sign-parts of the house are still cyclically "renewed" in the framework of traditional houserites. -> http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/000_Borut_Intro.html • Sedentary architecture. The capacity to defend the territory of a permanent settlement and its surfaces of economic production formed the fundamental conditions for later civilisations on the basis of a synthesis between semantic and domestic architecture: cyclic reproduction of the fibrous foundation marker archived the hegemony of the settlement founder house. This provides deep insights into the traditional substructure of the agrarian village. -> http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/015AcrobatArchives/CPublications/SemioticaHoriz_E01.pdf • Urban/ Imperial architecture. Territorio-political monumentalisation of fibroconstructive 'semantic architecture' in temples and city centres appears now as the most prominent advancement of early cities and states and explains how imperial power and larger territories could be formed and theocratically controlled. The transition from agrarian village cultures with local autonomy based on cyclic renewal of fibroconstructive semantic architecture to spatial extensions into imperial territories with monumentalised urban centres implied a fundamental change from cyclic time to linear time. -> http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/015AcrobatArchives/CPublications/DeepStructOfArc.pdf 4) Based on the hominoid nestbuilding tradition (about 20 my) architectural anthropology introduces a new systematic class of material culture into the field of prehistory: 'fibro-constructive industries' and maintains that they were of primordial importance in the formation of basic evolutionary levels of human culture. 5) Consequently, architectural anthropology provides new, globally valid and temporally deep insights into the importance of architecture for human evolution. Most important were physical (erect body) and men
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