Using “Culture” in Housing Design

Amos Rapoport has been the keynote speaker at the two annual conferences of the American Association of Housing Educators that were held outside the United States-first in Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada in 1992 and then in Seoul, Korea in 1998. Dr. Rapoport was invited to prepare his talk from the 1998 conference into a paper that could be published in Housing and Society. The article presents a framework for examining culture in housing environments. Various relationships are examined and discussed.